Brain metastases exhibit gross deletions of the APC gene
✍ Scribed by Nives Pećina-Šlaus; Tamara Nikuševa Martić; Martina Zeljko; Sandra Bulat
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 274 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1433-7398
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