Incidence of occult cervical metastasis in head and neck carcinomas: Development over time
โ Scribed by Georgios Psychogios; Konstantinos Mantsopoulos; Christopher Bohr; Michael Koch; Johannes Zenk; Heinrich Iro
- Book ID
- 112136104
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 69 KB
- Volume
- 107
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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