Pancreatic carcinoma : Correlation between E-cadherin and α-catenin expression status and liver metastasis
✍ Scribed by Naoto Gunji; Tatsuya Oda; Takeshi Todoroki; Nobuo Kanazawa; Tohru Kawamoto; Kenji Yuzawa; Aldo Scarpa; Katashi Fukao
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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✦ Synopsis
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