The economic impact of technical change in the local treatment of breast cancer

International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 11-20

  Kurdas, Chidem ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER SURGERY; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; HEALTH CARE COST; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0030932859     PISSN: 02664623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0266462300010199     Document Type: Article

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