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Clinical Pathology

Significance of YAP1–MAML2 rearrangement and GTF2I mutation in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of metaplastic thymoma

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Article: 2237040 | Received 18 Jun 2023, Accepted 11 Jul 2023, Published online: 25 Jul 2023

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