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[Morphofunctional organization of lymphoepithelial organs of the human pharynx]

V P Bykova1, G P Satdykova

  • 1Research-Clinical Center of Otorhinolaryngology, Ministry of Health of Russian Federation, 2-i Botkinskii per. 5/14, Moscow, 125101 Russia.

Izvestiia Akademii Nauk. Seriia Biologicheskaia
|August 16, 2002
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