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Research Article

Vesicouterine Fistula Twenty Years Following Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer

Muhammed Ashraf Memon, David Alan Zieg, Peter M. Neal From the 1Department of Surgery, Section of Transplantation, Rush Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA, 2Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NB, USA and 3Marshfield Clinic, Indian Head Center, Rice Lake, WI, USA
Pages 293-295 | Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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