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Benign and Malignant Mesenchymal Tumors of the Uterus

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1. At the beginning of the third week, an opacity formed by a thickened linear band of epiblast – the primitive streak – appears caudally in the median plane of the dorsal aspect of the embryonic disc.

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    Jean Noel Buy

  2. Department of Radiology, Hotel Dieu de France, Beirut, Lebanon

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Buy, J.N., Ghossain, M. (2013). Benign and Malignant Mesenchymal Tumors of the Uterus . In: Gynecological Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31012-6_24

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