Solitary plasmacytoma of the skull vault: A rare case report.

Neurochirurgie

Department of neurosurgery national institute of neurology, "Mongo Ben HmidaHami" Tunis, Tunis faculty of medicine of tunis, University of tunis Elmanar, Tunisia. Electronic address:

Published: February 2020

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