Successful treatment of cranial metastases of extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma with chemotherapy alone
✍ Scribed by Bülent Orhan; Şuayib Yalçin; Türkkan Evrensel; Ömer Yerci; Osman Manavoğlu
- Book ID
- 105608448
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 826 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1357-0560
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