Internal mammary sentinel lymph node—technique of identification
✍ Scribed by Tomasz Jastrzȩbski; Andrzej Kopacz
- Book ID
- 102434188
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 30 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
- DOI
- 10.1002/jso.1069
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