Lymphoscintigraphy and radioguided sentinel node biopsy in oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma: same day protocol
β Scribed by Maurizio Giovanni Vigili; Girolamo Tartaglione; Siavash Rahimi; Barbara Mafera; Marco Pagan
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 345 KB
- Volume
- 264
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0302-9530
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