Case 39-2016. A 74-Year-Old Man with Rectal Bleeding and a History of Prostate Cancer
Theodore S Hong1, Phillip J Gray1, Jill N Allen1
1From the Departments of Radiation Oncology (T.S.H., P.J.G.), Hematology (J.N.A.), Surgery (P.C.S.), Radiology (K.P.L.), and Pathology (L.R.Z.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Radiation Oncology (T.S.H., P.J.G.), Hematology (J.N.A.), Surgery (P.C.S.), Radiology (K.P.L.), and Pathology (L.R.Z.), Harvard Medical School - both in Boston.
The New England Journal of Medicine
|December 22, 2016
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