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PREPUBERTAL MALIGNANT MELANOMA: Report of Three Cases

Primoz Strojan Department of Radiotherapy, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Janez Lamovec Department of Pathology, Institute of Oncology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Pages 163-169 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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