Rates of distant metastases in locally recurrent soft tissue sarcomas
β Scribed by C.A. Hahn; J.T. Efird; H.D. Suit
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 116 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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