Preemptive Total Gastrectomy for Hereditary Gastric Cancer
✍ Scribed by Heriberto Medina-Franco; Rafael Barreto-Zuñiga; Miriam N. García-Alvarez
- Book ID
- 107409071
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 145 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1091-255X
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