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Genetic Modification and Recombination of Salivary Gland Organ Cultures
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Heterotopic salivary tissue and branchial cleft sinus

R S Goodman, J F Daly, Q Valensi

    The Laryngoscope
    |February 1, 1981
    PubMed

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