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How many sentinel nodes should be harvested in oral squamous cell carcinoma?

✍ Scribed by Timo Atula; Taimur Shoaib; Gary L. Ross; Henry W. Gray; David S. Soutar

Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
281 KB
Volume
265
Category
Article
ISSN
0302-9530

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