Preoperative hyperthermia combined with radiotherapy and chemotherapy for patients with incompletely resected carcinoma of the esophagus
β Scribed by Hidemasa Matsufuji; Hiroyuki Kuwano; Hidenobu Kai; Hiroyuki Matsuda; Keizo Sugimachi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 620 KB
- Volume
- 62
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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