Total body irradiation with a high dose rate linear accelerator for bone-marrow transplantation in children
β Scribed by Tae H. Kim; John Kersey; Faiz M. Khan; Peter Coccia; Norma Ramsay; Mark E. Nesbit; William Krivit; Seymour H. Levitt
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 165 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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