Detection of disseminated tumor cells in the lymph nodes of colorectal cancer patients using a real-time polymerase chain reaction assay
✍ Scribed by Erkki Lotspeich; Markus Schoene; Heinz Gerngroß; Roland Schmidt; Reinhard Steinmann; Marco Ramadani; Susanne Gansauge
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 161 KB
- Volume
- 392
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-2451
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