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Parapharyngeal Neuroglial Heterotopia Presenting as a Growing Single Locular Cyst: MR Imaging Findings

Chia-Yuen Chen, Jen-Hung Huang, Wai-Man Choi, Chi-Long Chen and Wing P. Chan
American Journal of Neuroradiology January 2005, 26 (1) 96-99;
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