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A rare presentation of malignant melanoma with acute hepatic and consecutive multisystem organ failure
Soudeh Mashayekhi1, Sussan Gharaie, Reza Hajhosseiny
1Imperial College London School of Medicine, London, UK.
International Journal of Dermatology
|October 31, 2013
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