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Kai Pang1, Yun Yang1, Pengfei Zhao2
1Department of General Surgery, Beijing Friendship Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Key Laboratory of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Research and National Clinical Research Centre for Digestive Diseases, Beijing, China.
The British Journal of Surgery
|August 24, 2022
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