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Ultrasonography of the Adult Male Urinary Tract for Urinary Functional Testing
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Ultrasonography of the Adult Male Urinary Tract for Urinary Functional Testing

Published on: August 14, 2019

Primary carcinoma of the male urethra

R B Bracken, R Henry, N Ordonez

    Southern Medical Journal
    |August 1, 1980
    PubMed

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