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  1. Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubiran, Mexico City, Mexico

    Judith Domínguez-Cherit

  2. Hospital General “ Dr Manuel Gea Gonzalez”, México City, México

    Daniela Gutiérrez-Mendoza, Mariana de Anda-Juarez, Verónica Fonte-Avalos & Sonia Toussaint-Caire

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Domínguez-Cherit, J., Gutiérrez-Mendoza, D., de Anda-Juarez, M., Fonte-Avalos, V., Toussaint-Caire, S. (2017). Subungual Melanoma. In: Di Chiacchio, N., Tosti, A. (eds) Melanonychias. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44993-7_7

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