A rare tumor of the lung: inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor

Nawal Hammas1, Laila Chbani, Mohammed Rami

  • 1Department of Pathology, HASSAN II University Hospital, Fez, 30000, Morocco.

Diagnostic Pathology
|July 19, 2012
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