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Long-term morbidity of patients with early breast cancer after sentinel lymph node biopsy compared to axillary lymph node dissection

✍ Scribed by Tobias Schulze; Jörg Mucke; Jorn Markwardt; Peter M. Schlag; Andreas Bembenek

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
108 KB
Volume
93
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-4790

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