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. 2015 Mar 20;33(9):980-2.
doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.59.8128. Epub 2015 Feb 9.

Brachytherapy: where has it gone?

Daniel G Petereit  1 , Steven J Frank  2 , Akila N Viswanathan  3 , Beth Erickson  4 , Patricia Eifel  2 , Paul L Nguyen  3 , David E Wazer  5
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Brachytherapy: where has it gone?

Daniel G Petereit et al. J Clin Oncol. .
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