PERINEURAL INVASION AND SEMINAL VESICLE INVOLVEMENT PREDICT PELVIC LYMPH NODE METASTASIS IN MEN WITH LOCALIZED CARCINOMA OF THE PROSTATE
β Scribed by STONE, NELSON N.; STOCK, RICHARD G.; PARIKH, DHAVAL; YEGHIAYAN, PAULA; UNGER, PAMELA
- Book ID
- 123310690
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams and Wilkins
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 574 KB
- Volume
- 160
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5347
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