American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 429-434 , November 2010

Clinicopathologic similarities between Mikulicz disease and Küttner tumor

  • Ken-ichi Takano, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, South 1, West 16, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan. Tel.: +81 11 611 2111; fax: +81 11 615 5405.
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  • Motohisa Yamamoto, MD

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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  • Hiroki Takahashi, MD

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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  • Yasuhisa Shinomura, MD

      Affiliations

    • First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan
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  • Kohzoh Imai, MD

      Affiliations

    • Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan
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  • Tetsuo Himi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

Received 26 March 2009

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PII: S0196-0709(09)00160-4

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2009.08.002

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 31, Issue 6 , Pages 429-434 , November 2010

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