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Beware of “degenerating” congenital pulmonary cysts

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  1. Lauren V. Ackerman Laboratory of Surgical Pathology, Barnes-Jewish and St. Louis Children’s Hospitals at the Washington University Medical Center, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA

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Dehner, L.P. Beware of “degenerating” congenital pulmonary cysts. Ped Surgery Int 21, 123–124 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-004-1327-z

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