Squamous cell carcinoma of the penis

Clinical Pathology of Urological Tumours

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 215-232

  Cubilla, Antonio L ^a   Velazquez, Elsa F ^b  

^a Inst de Patologia e Investigacion   (Paraguay)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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