Renal cell carcinoma: Can some be observed?

Contemporary Urology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Crispen, Paul L ^a   Uzzo, Robert G ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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