Analysis of treatment results in advanced Hodgkin’s disease: the case for adjuvant radiotherapy
✍ Scribed by Magdalena Dyduch; Jan Skolyszewski; Stanislaw Korzeniowski; Andrzej Sokolowski
- Book ID
- 108435152
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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