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  1. Department of Radiology, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, MBC-28, P.o.Box 3354, Riyadh, 11211, Saudi Arabia

    Meshal Ali Alshahrani, Faisal Fahad Aloufi, Faisal Mohammed Alabdulkarim & Abdulrahman Hesham Nadrah

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Alshahrani, M.A., Aloufi, F.F., Alabdulkarim, F.M. et al. The football sign. Abdom Radiol 42, 2769–2771 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-017-1177-5

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