Extra-articular Tenosynovial Chondromatosis Mimicking a Neoplastic Disease in the First Web Space of the Hand.
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SUBMITTER: Cebesoy O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3464747 | biostudies-other | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
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