Evaluation of the Seventh American Joint Committee on Cancer/International Union Against Cancer Classification of gastric adenocarcinoma in comparison with the sixth classification
โ Scribed by Hye Seong Ahn; Hyuk-Joon Lee; Seokyung Hahn; Woo-Ho Kim; Kuhn Uk Lee; Takeshi Sano; Stephen B Edge; Han-Kwang Yang
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 437 KB
- Volume
- 116
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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