Immunohistochemistry analysis of micrometastasis in pretreatment lymph nodes from patients with esophageal cancer
โ Scribed by Xiaolong Jiao; Afshin Eslami; Olga Ioffe; King F Kwong; Michael Henry; Qingling Zeng; Yael Refaely; Whitney Burrows; Ziv Gamliel; Mark J Krasna
- Book ID
- 117036101
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 76
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-4975
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