The usefulness of the level of the muscularis mucosae in the staging of invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder
β Scribed by Mamoun Younes; Jeffrey Sussman; Lawrence D. True
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 720 KB
- Volume
- 66
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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