Unilateral or bilateral approach for unilateral pulmonary metastatic disease

Difficult Decisions in Thoracic Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 158-164

  Patel, Ashish ^a   Decamp Jr , Malcolm M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 34248227909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-84628-474-8_19     Document Type: Chapter

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