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[Peak concentration of gemcitabine at fixed-dose-rate and its hematological toxicity profile]

Lin-run Wang1, Guo-bing Zhang, Ming-zhu Huang

  • 1The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Hangzhou 310003, China.

Zhejiang Da Xue Xue Bao. Yi Xue Ban = Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical Sciences
|August 25, 2007
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