Chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery for squamous cell carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus with clinical evidence of adjacent organ invasion
โ Scribed by Giovanni de Manzoni; Corrado Pedrazzani; Felice Pasini; Marco Bernini; Anna Maria Minicozzi; Simone Giacopuzzi; Antonio Grandinetti; Claudio Cordiano
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 104 KB
- Volume
- 95
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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