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Intravital Microscopy of the Inguinal Lymph Node
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Published on: April 4, 2011

[Age and variability in the inguinal lymph nodes of adult humans]

E V Shvetsov

    Arkhiv Anatomii, Gistologii I Embriologii
    |January 1, 1976
    PubMed

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