Epiphora as a sign of unexpected underlying squamous cell carcinoma within sinonasal inverted papilloma

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Alessandra Di Maria
Filippo Confalonieri*
Raffaele Piscopo
Laura Balia
Luca Malvezzi

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Maria, A. D., Confalonieri, F., Piscopo, R., Balia, L., & Malvezzi, L. (2020). Epiphora as a sign of unexpected underlying squamous cell carcinoma within sinonasal inverted papilloma. Archives of Case Reports, 4(1), 038–040. https://doi.org/10.29328/journal.acr.1001038
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