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Hepatoblastoma: why so many low-birth-weight infants?

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  1. Department of Pediatric Imaging, Children’s Hospital of Michigan, 3901 Beaubien Blvd., Detroit, MI, 48201, USA

    Thomas L. Slovis

  2. Department of Radiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, WC1N 3JH, UK

    Derek J. Roebuck

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Slovis, T.L., Roebuck, D.J. Hepatoblastoma: why so many low-birth-weight infants?. Pediatr Radiol 36, 173–174 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00247-006-0128-z

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