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An asymptomatic tongue nodule

Richa1, Jay Gopal Ray, Sweta Pattanayak

  • 1Dental Surgeon, Haryana Government, Haryana, India.

Contemporary Clinical Dentistry
|May 2, 2013
PubMed

Keywords:
Cysticercosisintra-oralneurocysticercosistongue

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