Potential Use of Transferred Lymph Nodes as Metastasis Detectors after Tumor Excision |
Nicoli, Fabio
(Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital)
Ciudad, Pedro (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) Lim, Seong Yoon (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) Lazzeri, Davide (Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery, Villa Salaria Clinic) D'Ambrosia, Christopher (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) Kiranantawat, Kidakorn (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) Chilgar, Ram M (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) Sapountzis, Stamatis (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) Sacak, Bulent (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) Chen, Hung-Chi (Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, China Medical University Hospital) |
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