Impact of nodal status and tumor burden in sentinel lymph nodes on the clinical outcomes of cancer patients
✍ Scribed by Stanley P.L. Leong; Markus Zuber; Robert L. Ferris; Yuko Kitagawa; Ramon Cabanas; Charles Levenback; Mark Faries; Sukamal Saha
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 238 KB
- Volume
- 103
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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