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Functional Lesions of the Ovary

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Functional lesions of the ovary are by far the most common abnormalities encountered in the pathology of the ovary.

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Buy, J.N., Ghossain, M. (2013). Functional Lesions of the Ovary . In: Gynecological Imaging. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31012-6_7

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