Colo-rectal cancer (CRC) in elderly patient: anagraphical age as not a determinant key for a radical surgery
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XXI Annual Meeting of The Italian Society of Geriatric Surgery Francesco Sciannameo, Giammario Giustozzi and Beatrice Sensi Publication of this supplement was made possible with support from the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Terni e Narni Meeting abstracts – A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2318-9-S1info.pdf
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دوره 9 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009