Pre-operative staging should define the probable course of a patient's disease, separate the resectable from the unresectable patients, and identify the patients who are candidates for induction therapy. Pre-operative staging must be well tolerated and should provide new or important information tha
Role of therapeutic radiology in cancer of bone
β Scribed by Herman D. Suit
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1975
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 481 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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