Relationship between gallbladder carcinoma and the segmental type of adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder
โ Scribed by Tetsuya Ootani; Yoshio Shirai; Kazuhiro Tsukada; Terukazu Muto
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 577 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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