Identification of biomarkers to distinguish clear cell sarcoma from malignant melanoma
✍ Scribed by Linlin Yang; Yuan Chen; Tiantian Cui; Thomas Knösel; Qing Zhang; Christiane Geier; Detlef Katenkamp; Iver Petersen
- Book ID
- 119257682
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 985 KB
- Volume
- 43
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1532-8392
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