Quality of life and persisting symptoms after oesophageal cancer surgery
✍ Scribed by Pernilla Viklund; Yvonne Wengström; Ioannis Rouvelas; Mats Lindblad; Jesper Lagergren
- Book ID
- 116428948
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 150 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0959-8049
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