Is the value of regional lymph node dissection different in Breast Cancer ana Gastrointestinal Cancer?
β Scribed by Masakuni Noguchi
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 367 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1340-6868
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