Signet Ring Early Gastric Cancer: Seize the Opportunity
Robert Bechara1, Haruhiro Inoue2, David Hurlbut3
1Division of Gastroenterology, Queens University, Kingston Health Sciences Center, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Journal of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology
|September 9, 2020
Abstract
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