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. 1986 Jun 21;292(6536):1667–1668. doi: 10.1136/bmj.292.6536.1667-a

Oral contraceptives and hepatocellular carcinoma

Ivo Brosens, Elisabeth Johannisson, Etienne-Emile Baulieu, Giuseppe Benagiano, Ian D Cooke, Joseph W Goldzieher, Jürgen Hammerstein, Ari Haspels, Bruno Lunenfeld, Malcolm Potts, Barbro Westerholm
PMCID: PMC1340724  PMID: 3013358

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