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Rare Distant Skeletal Muscle Metastasis from Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Report of a Case

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  1. Miles and Shirley Fiterman Center for Digestive Diseases, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Jia Li & Lewis R. Roberts

  2. Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA

    Michael R. Henry

  3. Tianjin Infectious Disease Hospital, Tianjin Institute of Hepatology, Tianjin, 300192, China

    Jia Li

  4. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 55905, USA

    Lewis R. Roberts

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Li, J., Henry, M.R. & Roberts, L.R. Rare Distant Skeletal Muscle Metastasis from Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Report of a Case. J Gastrointest Canc 42, 171–173 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-010-9237-x

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