Primary cutaneous melanoma. Prognostic classification of anatomic location
✍ Scribed by Claus Garbe; Petra Büttner; Jochen Bertz; Günter Burg; Barbara D'Hoedt; Hubert Drepper; Irene Guggenmoos-Holzmann; Walter Lechner; Andrea Lippold; Constantin E. Orfanos; Almut Peters; Gernot Rassner; Rudolf Stadler; Waltraud Stroebel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 591 KB
- Volume
- 75
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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