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Urogenital Radiology

Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Endometrial Cancer: Differentiation from Benign Endometrial Lesions and Preoperative Assessment of Myometrial Invasion

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Pages 947-953 | Published online: 08 Oct 2009

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