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The value of cytokeratins 20 and 7 in discriminating metastatic adenocarcinomas from pleural mesotheliomas

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 192 KB
Volume: 92
Category: Article
ISSN: 0008-543X
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(20011115)92:10<2727::aid-cncr1627>3.0.co;2-b

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