Microsurgical composite reconstruction in head and neck and esophagus
โ Scribed by Kunihide Yoshino; Satoshi Nara; Mitsuo Endo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 474 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0738-1085
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