Aggressive Surgical Intervention for a Patient with Unresectable Lung Cancer Complicated by Pyothorax with Fistula
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Thoracic Oncology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1556-0864
DOI: 10.1097/jto.0b013e318267d28c