Untreated breast masses: A cross-sectional countrywide survey of Nepal

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco East Bay; Surgeons OverSeas, Oakland, CA. Electronic address: Shailvi.gupta@gmail.com.
² B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
³ Department of Surgery, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Surgeons OverSeas, New York, NY.
⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Surgeons OverSeas, Baltimore, MD.
⁷ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Surgeons OverSeas, Baltimore, MD.
⁸ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Surgeons OverSeas, Columbus, OH.

Shailvi Gupta et al. Surgery. 2015 Jul.

. 2015 Jul;158(1):55-7.

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2014.10.002. Epub 2015 Jan 26.

¹ Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco East Bay; Surgeons OverSeas, Oakland, CA. Electronic address: Shailvi.gupta@gmail.com.
² B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
³ Department of Surgery, Nepal Medical College, Kathmandu, Nepal.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
⁵ Department of Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Surgeons OverSeas, New York, NY.
⁶ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; Surgeons OverSeas, Baltimore, MD.
⁷ Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Surgeons OverSeas, Baltimore, MD.
⁸ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Surgeons OverSeas, Columbus, OH.

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