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Chapter 14 - Medicolegal pitfalls in dermatopathology: perspectives from the USA and the UK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

Ophelia E. Dadzie
Affiliation:
Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Meera Mahalingam
Affiliation:
VA Consolidated Laboratories, New England
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Print publication year: 2000

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