Presentation of cancer to hospital as ‘acute abdominal pain’
✍ Scribed by Francis T. De Dombal; Santokh S. Matharu; John R. Staniland; David H. Wilson; William A. F. Macadam; Alexander A. Gunn; Walter R. Allan; Beth Bjerregaard
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Volume
- 67
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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