Successful treatment of metastatic thymic carcinoma with cisplatin, vinblastine, bleomycin, and etoposide chemotherapy
โ Scribed by Robert W. Carlson; Ronald F. Dorfman; Branimir I. Sikic
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 334 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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