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Symptomatic hypophyseal granular cell tumour: endocrinological and clinicopathological analysis

M. Higuchi, M. Tsuji, H. Ikeda Department of Neurosurgery and; Pathology, Itami Municipal Hospital, Hyogo, Japan
Pages 582-586 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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