Case report: Microcystic Transitional Cell Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder
β Scribed by Demetrios Radopoulos; Konstantinos Kalyvas; Rodi Kotakidou; Konstantina Panagiotopoulou; Vasilios Katsikas; Michalis Papathanasiou
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 219 KB
- Volume
- 37
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-1623
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