The prognostic value of primary tumor size in papillary and follicular thyroid carcinoma : A comparative analysis
✍ Scribed by Andreas Machens; Hans-Jürgen Holzhausen; Henning Dralle
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 112 KB
- Volume
- 103
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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