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Oncology

Unclear role of human papillomavirus infection in response to adjuvant radiotherapy: conflicting results on the prognostic significance of irradiation in vulvar cancer patients with lymph node metastasis

Pages 1387-1388 | Received 22 Mar 2016, Accepted 31 Mar 2016, Published online: 04 May 2016

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