Giant gastrointestinal stromal tumor in the esophagus
β Scribed by Satoru Matono; Hiromasa Fujita; Toshiaki Tanaka; Yuichi Tanaka; Tatsuji Tsubuku; Kohei Nishimura; Kazutaka Murata; Kazuo Shirouzu
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 688 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1612-9059
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