Can surgical diagnosis of “early” gastric cancer and lymph node metastasis be accurate?
✍ Scribed by Takaki Yoshikawa; Naoki Ishiwa; Soichiro Morinaga; Yoshikazu Noguchi; Yuji Yamamoto
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 67 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1436-3291
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