The efficacy of bone scanning in the follow-up of patients with operable breast cancer
โ Scribed by Lawrence Wickerham; Bernard Fisher; Walter Cronin; Leo Stolbach; Neil Abramson; David Bowman; Peter J Deckers; Peter Eisenberg; Roger Foster; Andrew Glass; Saul Kay; Alice Kyle; David Prager; Kathleen Pritchard
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 434 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-6806
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