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Research Article

Evaluation of PD-L1 expression on circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in patients with advanced urothelial carcinoma (UC)

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Article: 1738798 | Received 11 Sep 2019, Accepted 18 Jan 2020, Published online: 23 Mar 2020

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