Surgical Treatment for Locally Advanced (T4) Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Thoracic Esophagus
โ Scribed by Mitsuo Tachibana; Dipok Kumar Dhar; Shoichi Kinugasa; Hiroshi Yoshimura; Muneaki Shibakita; Satoshi Ohno; Shuhei Ueda; Toshiyuki Fujii; Hitoshi Kohno; Naofumi Nagasue
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 240 KB
- Volume
- 17
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-051X
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