Relationship Between Computed Tomography Manifestations of Thymic Epithelial Tumors and the WHO Pathological Classification |
Liu, Guo-Bing
(Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University)
Qu, Yan-Juan (Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University) Liao, Mei-Yan (Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University) Hu, Hui-Juan (Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University) Yang, Gui-Fang (Department of Pathology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University) Zhou, Su-Jun (Department of Radiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University) |
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