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Benign Expansile Lesions of the Sphenoid Sinus: Differentiation from Normal Asymmetry of the Lateral Recesses

Jonathan S. Lewin, Hugh D. Curtin, Elizabeth Eelkema and Nancy Obuchowski
American Journal of Neuroradiology March 1999, 20 (3) 461-466;
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