Palliative pelvic exenteration for patients with gynecological malignancies
✍ Scribed by Gustavo Cardoso Guimarães; Glauco Baiocchi; Fabio Oliveira Ferreira; Lillian Yuri Kumagai; Carlos Chaves Fallopa; Samuel Aguiar; Benedito Mauro Rossi; Fernando Augusto Soares; Ademar Lopes
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 197 KB
- Volume
- 283
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0003-9128
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