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Microcystic Adenocarcinoma: An Initially Overlooked First Proposal of the Term

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  1. Division of Pathology, Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences, Meikai University School of Dentistry, 1-1 Keyakidai, Sakado, Saitama, 350-0283, Japan

    Fumio Ide, Kentaro Kikuchi & Kaoru Kusama

  2. Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Tsurumi University School of Dental Medicine, 2-1-3 Tsurumi, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, 230-8501, Japan

    Fumio Ide & Naoyuki Matsumoto

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Ide, F., Matsumoto, N., Kikuchi, K. et al. Microcystic Adenocarcinoma: An Initially Overlooked First Proposal of the Term. Head and Neck Pathol 13, 487–488 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12105-018-0967-6

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