Scar carcinoma - a real entity or a historical 'histological curiosity'?

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Editorial

Ismail S Kalla. Afr J Thorac Crit Care Med. 2020.

. 2020 Mar 19;26(1):10.7196/AJTCCM.2020.v26i1.066.

doi: 10.7196/AJTCCM.2020.v26i1.066. eCollection 2020.

¹ Division of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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