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Giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath in the left knee of a 7-year-old girl

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    Moon-Jib Yoo, Jae-Sung Yoo, Chang-Hwan Hwang & Ho-sung Jang

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Yoo, MJ., Yoo, JS., Hwang, CH. et al. Giant cell tumor of the tendon sheath in the left knee of a 7-year-old girl. Eur Orthop Traumatol 6, 121–124 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12570-014-0265-z

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