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Original Articles: Gynaecologic Malignancies

Dose-response relationships of the sigmoid for urgency syndrome after gynecological radiotherapy

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Pages 1352-1358 | Received 25 Feb 2017, Accepted 16 Apr 2018, Published online: 07 May 2018

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