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Intramural metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of stomach

Arulprakash Sarangapani1, Rathnakar Kini, S Chitra

  • 1Department of Digestive Health and Diseases, Kilpauk Medical College, Chennai, India.

The Indian Journal of Surgery
|August 2, 2012
PubMed

Keywords:
Intramural metastasis stomachMetastasis stomachSquamous cell carcinoma stomach

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