Risk of marginal mandibular nerve injury in neck dissection
✍ Scribed by Martin Nue Møller; Christian Hjort Sørensen
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 298 KB
- Volume
- 269
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0302-9530
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