Is meta-analysis really meta-physics?

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Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 539-542

  Machtay, M ^a   Kaiser, L R ^a   Glatstein, E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Meta analysis; Postoperative radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; MASTECTOMY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; META ANALYSIS; METAPHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0032801404     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.116.2.539     Document Type: Article

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