Cerebral echinococcus that can be confused with brain tumour: a case report

Şule Göktürk; Yasin Göktürk

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Cerebral echinococcus that can be confused with brain tumour: a case report

Şule Göktürk

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Yasin Göktürk

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University of Health Sciences, Kayseri City Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey

Folia Neuropathol 2023; 61 (4): 448-451

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5114/fn.2023.131210

Online publish date: 2023/09/14

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Cerebral echinococcus that can be confused with brain tumour: a case report

Şule Göktürk 1 , Yasin Göktürk 1

Şule Göktürk

¹

,

Yasin Göktürk

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