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Virilizing Steroid Cell Tumor of the Ovary: Successful Surgical Management of an Enigma

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    Manikandan Lakshmanan, Sameer Gupta, Vijay Kumar, Naseem Akhtar, Shiv Rajan, Kavitha Jain & Sudeep Garg

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Lakshmanan, M., Gupta, S., Kumar, V. et al. Virilizing Steroid Cell Tumor of the Ovary: Successful Surgical Management of an Enigma. Indian J Surg Oncol 11, 166–168 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-019-00931-8

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