Prognostic Significance of Disseminated Tumor Cells in the Connective Tissue of Patients with Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
✍ Scribed by Oliver Gimm; Viola Heyn; Ulf Krause; Carsten Sekulla; Jörg Ukkat; Henning Dralle
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 355 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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