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CASE REPORT: Epidermoid Cysts of the Spleen Occurring in Sisters

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  1. Department of Surgery, Shimizu Kousei General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

    Yasushi Ito, Eiichiro Shimizu, Takeshi Miyamoto, Tetsushi Taniguchi, Koichi Nakajima & Tsuyoshi Hara

  2. Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    Hitoshi Kubosawa

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Ito, Y., Shimizu, E., Miyamoto, T. et al. CASE REPORT: Epidermoid Cysts of the Spleen Occurring in Sisters. Dig Dis Sci 47, 619–623 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1017984506945

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