Reply to assessment of capsular melanoma cell deposits in sentinel lymph nodes
✍ Scribed by Andre Meier; Imke Satzger; Bernward Völker; Alexander Kapp; Ralf Gutzmer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 86 KB
- Volume
- 117
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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