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Epidemiology of oral cancer in Arab countries

Abeer Al-Jaber, Lubna Al-Nasser and Ashraf El-Metwally
Saudi Medical Journal March 2016, 37 (3) 249-255; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.3.11388

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