Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 993-997 , December 2009

Lymphatic mapping helps to define resection margins for midgut carcinoids

,Accepted 17 September 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.09.005

Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 6 , Pages 993-997 , December 2009

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