Tumour-associated carbohydrate antigens in breast cancer
✍ Scribed by Aurélie Cazet, Sylvain Julien, Marie Bobowski, Joy Burchell…
- Book ID
- 120699730
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 686 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1465-5411
- DOI
- 10.1186/bcr2577
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