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Ethics of palliative surgery in patients with cancer

✍ Scribed by B. Hofmann; L. L. Håheim; J. A. Søreide

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
119 KB
Volume
92
Category
Article
ISSN
0007-1323

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