Complete clinical response of liver metastasis after chemotherapy: To resect or not?
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عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1948-5204
DOI: 10.4251/wjgo.v3.i7.107