Should irradiation replace dissection for patients with breast cancer with clinically negative axillary lymph nodes?
โ Scribed by Recht, Abram
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 72
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4790
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