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Photodynamic Therapy for Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma
Haroon Shahid, MD, Fellow, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology David Loren, MD FASGE, Associate Director, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Associate Professor of Medicine Sidney Kimmel College of Medicine Thomas Jefferson University Cholangiocarcinoma of the biliary hilum is an uncommon disease but increasing in incidence. Patients affected by this frequently fatal disease often succumb to c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1540-1405,1540-1413
DOI: 10.6004/jnccn.2012.0174