Surgical treatment for local control of extremity and trunk desmoid tumors
โ Scribed by Yoji Shido; Yoshihiro Nishida; Hiroatsu Nakashima; Hirohisa Katagiri; Hideshi Sugiura; Yoshihisa Yamada; Naoki Ishiguro
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 247 KB
- Volume
- 129
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-3916
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