Pathologic Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Nivolumab/Ipilimumab in a Patient with Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

Taylor C Peak1, Elena M Fenu2, Michael B Rothberg1

  • 1Department of Urology, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.

Case Reports in Urology
|November 18, 2020
PubMed

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