Ways of understanding the encounter with head and neck cancer patients in the hospital dental team—a phenomenographic study
✍ Scribed by Marta Röing; J.-M. Hirsch; Inger Holmström
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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