Surgical Approach to Invasive Adenocarcinoma of the Distal Esophagus (Barrett’s Cancer)
✍ Scribed by J. Rüdiger Siewert; Hubert J. Stein; Marcus Feith
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 75 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-2313
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