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Chapter 2 - Epithelial or Squamous Neoplasms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 November 2017

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María Teresa Fernández Figueras  and
Mai P. Hoang
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Immunohistochemistry in Diagnostic Dermatopathology , pp. 8 - 26
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