Early combined hormonal and chemotherapy for metastatic prostatic carcinoma
β Scribed by Ciro Servadio; Eliahu Mukamel; Hedwig Lurie; Israel Nissenkorn
- Book ID
- 119044867
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 385 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4295
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