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Recurrent Gastric Cancer Presenting with Both Scrotal and Facial Skin Metastases: A Case Report

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    Faruk Tas, Rumeysa Ciftci & Senem Karabulut

  2. Department of Pathology, Istanbul Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

    Nesimi Buyukbabani

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Tas, F., Ciftci, R., Buyukbabani, N. et al. Recurrent Gastric Cancer Presenting with Both Scrotal and Facial Skin Metastases: A Case Report. J Gastrointest Canc 45, 96–99 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-013-9484-8

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