Clinical Radiology
Volume 64, Issue 10 , Pages 994-999 , October 2009

Kimura's disease: imaging patterns on computed tomography

  • Anil Gopinathan

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationGuarantor and correspondent: Anil Gopinathan, Department of Radiology, Changi General Hospital, 2 Simei Street 3, Singapore 529889, Singapore. Tel.: +65 96735410; fax: +65 6850 4859.
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  • T.Y. Tan

Received 11 March 2009 ,Revised 24 June 2009 ,Accepted 7 July 2009.

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PII: S0009-9260(09)00239-6

doi: 10.1016/j.crad.2009.07.003

Clinical Radiology
Volume 64, Issue 10 , Pages 994-999 , October 2009

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