Lymph node harvest in rectal cancer patients with good tumour regression grade: Time to set a new cut-off point?
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Surgery
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1743-9191
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsu.2019.01.024