Introduction: Localized prostate cancer—to defer treatment or to excise radically?: Deferred treatment for clinically localized prostate cancer
✍ Scribed by Jan Adolfsson
- Book ID
- 117569274
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 385 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0748-7983
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