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(2005). Basic Strategies in Sentinel Node Detection and Exclusion or Verification of Cancer Metastasis into the Regional Node(s). In: The Sentinel Lymph Node Concept. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-26393-4_4

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