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Insulinoma in tuberous sclerosis

An entity not to be missed

Mohammed S. Al Qahtani, Shoukat A. Bojal, Abdullah A. Alqarzaie and Abdulaziz A. Alqahtani
Saudi Medical Journal March 2021, 42 (3) 332-337; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.3.20200490
Mohammed S. Al Qahtani
From the Department of Surgery (Al Qahtani M), Multi Organ Transplant Center; from the Department of Surgery (Bojal), King Fahad Specialist Hospital; and from the College of Medicine (Alqarzaie, Alqahtani A) Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Shoukat A. Bojal
From the Department of Surgery (Al Qahtani M), Multi Organ Transplant Center; from the Department of Surgery (Bojal), King Fahad Specialist Hospital; and from the College of Medicine (Alqarzaie, Alqahtani A) Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Abdullah A. Alqarzaie
From the Department of Surgery (Al Qahtani M), Multi Organ Transplant Center; from the Department of Surgery (Bojal), King Fahad Specialist Hospital; and from the College of Medicine (Alqarzaie, Alqahtani A) Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Abdulaziz A. Alqahtani
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Mohammed S. Al Qahtani, Shoukat A. Bojal, Abdullah A. Alqarzaie, Abdulaziz A. Alqahtani
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