Detection of circulating tumor cells in bladder cancer patients
β Scribed by Adrianos Nezos; Nikolaos Pissimisis; Peter Lembessis; Antigone Sourla; Peter Dimopoulos; Theodore Dimopoulos; Kostantinos Tzelepis; Michael Koutsilieris
- Book ID
- 116395372
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 273 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0305-7372
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