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Emperipolesis in Rosai-Dorfman disease presenting as a peritonsillar mass
Evan A Farkash1, Kurt A Yaeger, Martha Bishop Pitman
1Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA. efarkash@partners.org
Diagnostic Cytopathology
|October 2, 2009
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