## Background: Mature teratoma is often found in resected retroperitoneal residual tumor masses (rrtm) after chemotherapy for disseminated nonseminomatous testicular germ cell tumors (nstgct). the aim of this report is to describe the clinical course of patients after resection of residual teratoma
Surgery for germ cell tumors
โ Scribed by Satoru Sagae; Ryuichi Kudo
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 41 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 8756-0437
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