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Post-surgical hemorrhagic infarction of the adrenal gland as the first clinical manifestation of antiphospholipid syndrome after 43 years of antibody-positivity

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Pages 1237-1241 | Received 12 Apr 2012, Accepted 06 Aug 2012, Published online: 14 Jan 2014

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