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Clinical Studies

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  Role of Genomic Instability in Immunotherapy with Checkpoint Inhibitors

  GEORGE YAGHMOUR, MANJARI PANDEY, CATHERINE IRELAND, KRUTI PATEL, SARA NUNNERY, DANIEL POWELL, SCOTT BAUM, ERIC WIEDOWER, LEE S. SCHWARTZBERG and MICHAEL G. MARTIN

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4033-4038;
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  DNA Repair Gene Expression Levels as Indicators of Breast Cancer in the Breast Cancer Family Registry

  MAYA A. KAPPIL, YUYAN LIAO, MARY BETH TERRY and REGINA M. SANTELLA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4039-4044;
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  Conversion to Neuroendocrine Carcinoma from Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus After Definitive Chemoradiotherapy

  MASARU MORITA, HIROSHI SAEKI, YU NAKAJI, YOKO ZAITSU, MINAKO HIRAHASHI, TAKAYUKI OHGURI, EIJI OKI, YASUSHI TOH, YOSHINAO ODA and YOSHIHIKO MAEHARA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4045-4049;
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  Effect of Adjuvant Radiotherapy on Survival in Patients with Locoregional Urothelial Malignancies of the Upper Urinary Tract

  ANDREW W. HAHN, SMITH GIRI, RANJAN PATHAK, VIJAYA RAJ BHATT and MIKE G. MARTIN

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4051-4055;
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  Cyclin D1 Co-localizes with Beclin-1 in Glioblastoma Recurrences: A Clue to a Therapy-induced, Autophagy-mediated Degradative Mechanism?

  LUIGI PIRTOLI, GIUSEPPE BELMONTE, MARZIA TOSCANO, PAOLO TINI and CLELIA MIRACCO

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4057-4062;
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  Postoperative Closed-loop Glycemic Control Using an Artificial Pancreas in Patients After Esophagectomy

  HIROYUKI KITAGAWA, TOMOAKI YATABE, TSUTOMU NAMIKAWA, MASAYA MUNEKAGE and KAZUHIRO HANAZAKI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4063-4067;
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  Identification of SATB1 as a Specific Biomarker for Lymph Node Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer

  HIRONOBU BABA, TOSHIAKI ISHIKAWA, KAORU MOGUSHI, MEGUMI ISHIGURO, HIROYUKI UETAKE, HIROSHI TANAKA and KENICHI SUGIHARA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4069-4076;
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  Bite Force and Masticatory Performance Using Implant-supported Overdentures After Treatment of Mandibular Cancer

  TOMOKI SUMIDA, YOSUKE KOBAYASHI, AKIKO ISHIKAWA, KOZUE SHINOHARA, EMI MATSUMOTO, SATOSHI KAMAKURA and YOSHIHIDE MORI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4077-4080;
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  Concurrent Chemoradiation with Concomitant Boost in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer: A Phase II Study

  VINCENZO PICARDI, FRANCESCO DEODATO, ALESSANDRA GUIDO, LUCIA GIACCHERINI, GABRIELLA MACCHIA, MARIA A. GAMBACORTA, ALESSANDRA ARCELLI, ANDREA FARIOLI, FRANCESCO CELLINI, DAJANA CUICCHI, FRANCESCA DI FABIO, GILBERTO POGGIOLI, ANDREA ARDIZZONI, GIOVANNI FREZZA, SAVINO CILLA, LUCIANA CARAVATTA, VINCENZO VALENTINI, LORENZO FUCCIO and ALESSIO G. MORGANTI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4081-4087;
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  Influence of Chemotherapy on the Antioxidant Status of Human Skin

  BICH NA LEE, SORA JUNG, MAXIM E. DARVIN, JAN EUCKER, DAGMAR KÜHNHARDT, JALID SEHOULI, RADOSLAV CHEKEROV, ALEXA PATZELT, HARALD FUSS, RUO-XI YU and JÜRGEN LADEMANN

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4089-4093;
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  Optic Pathway Glioma and Cerebral Focal Abnormal Signal Intensity in Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 1: Characteristics, Treatment Choices and Follow-up in 134 Affected Individuals and a Brief Review of the Literature

  REINHARD E. FRIEDRICH and MICHAEL A. NUDING

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4095-4121;
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  Symptom Assessment for Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer Scheduled for Chemotherapy

  MARIA SILVONIEMI, TUULA VASANKARI, ELIISA LÖYTTYNIEMI, MAUNO VALTONEN and EEVA SALMINEN

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4123-4128;
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  Prevalence of H. pylori Infection and Atrophic Gastritis in a Population-based Screening with Serum Biomarker Panel (GastroPanel®) in St. Petersburg

  LASLO D. ROMAN, RUSLAN LUKYANCHUK, OLEG A. SABLIN, ELENA I. ARASLANOVA, CARITA EKLUND, PANU HENDOLIN, LEA PALOHEIMO and KARI SYRJÄNEN

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4129-4138;
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  Comparison of Transumbilical and Conventional Defunctioning Ileostomy in Laparoscopic Anterior Resections for Rectal Cancer

  KEN ETO, MAKOTO KOSUGE, MASAHISA OHKUMA, KOICHIRO HARUKI, KAI NEKI, NORIO MITSUMORI, KATSUHIRO ISHIDA and KATSUHIKO YANAGA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4139-4144;
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  Bone Marrow Metastases from a 1p/19q Co-deleted Oligodendroglioma - A Case Report

  MARIEKE DEMEULENAERE, JOHNNY DUERINCK, STEPHANIE DU FOUR, KAREL FOSTIER, ALEX MICHOTTE and BART NEYNS

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4145-4149;
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  Benign and Malignant Salivary Gland Tumors – Clinical and Demographic Characteristics

  YAIR ISRAEL, ADI RACHMIEL, GIL ZIV and RAFAEL NAGLER

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4151-4154;
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  Computational and Immunohistochemical Analyses Highlight AXL as a Potential Prognostic Marker for Ovarian Cancer Patients

  LUDMILA LOZNEANU, PATRIZIA PINCIROLI, DELIA APOSTOL CIOBANU, MARIA LUISA CARCANGIU, SILVANA CANEVARI, ANTONELLA TOMASSETTI and IRINA-DRAGA CĂRUNTU

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4155-4163;
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  Adjuvant Therapy for Salivary Gland Carcinomas

  MUTLAY SAYAN, PRASHANT VEMPATI, BRETT MILES, MARITA TENG, ERIC GENDEN, ELIZABETH G. DEMICCO, KRZYSZTOF MISIUKIEWICZ, MARSHALL POSNER, VISHAL GUPTA and RICHARD L. BAKST

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4165-4170;
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  Clinical Value of Serum p53 Antibody in the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Colorectal Cancer

  MASAKI KUNIZAKI, TERUMITSU SAWAI, HIROAKI TAKESHITA, TETSURO TOMINAGA, SHIGEKAZU HIDAKA, KAZUO TO, TAKURO MIYAZAKI, RYUJI HAMAMOTO, ATSUSHI NANASHIMA and TAKESHI NAGAYASU

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4171-4175;
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  Karnofsky Performance Score, Radiation Dose and Nodal Status Predict Survival of Elderly Patients Irradiated for Limited-disease Small-cell Lung Cancer

  LUKAS KÄSMANN, STEFAN JANSSEN and DIRK RADES

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4177-4180;
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  Target Volume Delineation Based on Diffusion-weighted magnetic Resonance Imaging for Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer

  FRANCESCA DE FELICE, DANIELA MUSIO, NADIA BULZONETTI, FABRIZIO MAGHELLA and VINCENZO TOMBOLINI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4181-4185;
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  Clinical Value of ¹⁸F-fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine Positron Emission Tomography/Contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography (¹⁸F-DOPA PET/CT) in Patients with Suspected Paraganglioma

  KAREM EL-RABADI, MICHAEL WEBER, MARIUS MAYERHOFER, THOMAS NAKUZ, THOMAS SCHERER, MARKUS MITTERHAUSER, ROBERT DUDCZAK, MARCUS HACKER and GEORGIOS KARANIKAS

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4187-4193;
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  Ovarian Metastases from Breast Cancer: A Series of 28 Cases

  CELINE PIMENTEL, MARGAUX BECQUET, VINCENT LAVOUE, SEBASTIEN HENNO, JEAN LEVEQUE and LOBNA OULDAMER

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4195-4200;
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  Safety and Efficacy of Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy in a Low-volume Center: A 6-year Single-surgeon Experience

  GIOVANNI BATTISTA DI PIERRO, PIETRO GRANDE, LIVIO MORDASINI, HANSJÖRG DANUSER and AGOSTINO MATTEI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4201-4207;
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  Circulating Growth and Angiogenic Factors and Lymph Node Status in Early-stage Breast Cancer – A Pilot Study

  MARIE KARLIKOVA, ONDREJ TOPOLCAN, ANDREA NARSANSKA, RADEK KUCERA, INKA TRESKOVA and VLADISLAV TRESKA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4209-4214;
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  Cronkhite-Canada syndrome – A Case report

  CARLOS A. RUBIO and JAN BJÖRK

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4215-4217;
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  Risk Factors of Lymph Nodes Metastases by Endometrial Cancer: A Retrospective One-center Study

  MUSTAFA ZELAL MUALLEM, JALID SEHOULI, JUMANA ALMUHEIMID, ROLF RICHTER, RALF JOUKHADAR and HELMUT PLETT

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4219-4225;
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  Implementation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Pathways in Gynecologic Oncology. A NOGGO-AGO* survey of 144 Gynecological Departments in Germany

  MUSTAFA ZELAL MUALLEM, DESISLAVA DIMITROVA, KLAUS PIETZNER, ROLF RICHTER, AARNE FELDHEISER, IRINA SCHARFE, IRYNA SCHMEIL, TERESA MARIA HÖSL, ALEXANDER MUSTEA, PAULINE WIMBERGER, ALEXANDER BURGES, RAINER KIMMIG and JALID SEHOULI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4227-4232;
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  Lack of Relationship Between Clinical Features and KRAS Mutations in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

  ANNE PLOQUIN, FARID ZERIMECH, FABIENNE ESCANDE, ANTOINE ADENIS, CLAIRE GIRAUD, LAURENT GASNAULT, VINCENT BOURGEOIS, CHRISTOPHE DESAUW and MOHAMED HEBBAR

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4233-4236;
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  Improved Efficacy by Addition of Protein-bound Polysaccharide K to Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Advanced Gastric Cancer

  MINORU FUKUCHI, ERITO MOCHIKI, TORU ISHIGURO, TOSHIRO OGURA, JUN SOBAJIMA, YOUICHI KUMAGAI, KEIICHIRO ISHIBASHI and HIDEYUKI ISHIDA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4237-4241;
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  Equivalent Outcome of Patients with Locally Advanced NSCLC Treated with Salvage Surgery Compared to Induction Chemotherapy Followed by Surgical Resection

  HIDETAKA URAMOTO, YUKI NAKAJIMA, HIROYASU KINOSHITA and HIROHIKO AKIYAMA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4243-4247;
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  A Prognostic Nomogram for Overall Survival of Patients After Hepatectomy for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

  CHUN-NAN YEH, SHANG-YU WANG, YEN-YANG CHEN, MING-HUANG CHEN, KUN-CHUN CHIANG, CHI-TUNG CHENG, CHUN-YI TSAI, CHIH-CHI WANG, TA-SEN YEH and TSE-CHING CHEN

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4249-4258;
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  Progression-free Survival as a Surrogate End-point in Advanced Colorectal Cancer Treated with Antiangiogenic Therapies

  FRANCESCO MONTAGNANI, GRETA DI LEONARDO, MARIA SIMONA PINO, FRANCESCA MARTELLA, SIMONA PERBONI, ANGELA RIBECCO and LUISA FIORETTO

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4259-4265;
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  Non-small Cell Lung Cancer in South Wales: Are Exon 19 Deletions and L858R Different?

  RHIAN SIÂN DAVIES, DANIEL JOHN NELMES, RACHEL BUTLER and JASON FRANCIS LESTER

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4267-4271;
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  Long-term Survival After Surgical Treatment of Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasis Within the Pancreas

  PANAGIOTIS FIKATAS, FRITZ KLEIN, ANDREAS ANDREOU, ROSA BIANCA SCHMUCK, JOHANN PRATSCHKE and MARCUS BAHRA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4273-4278;
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  The Value of Endorectal Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Prostate in Improving the Detection of Anterior Prostate Cancer

  VAHUDIN ZUGOR, REINHARD KÜHN, KARL ENGELHARD, SANDOR POTH, MARIJA MAJA BERNAT, DANIEL PORRES and APOSTOLOS P. LABANARIS

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4279-4283;
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  Is an Extended Prostate Biopsy Scheme Associated with an Improvement in the Accuracy Between the Biopsy Gleason Score and Radical Prostatectomy Pathology? A Multivariate Analysis

  VAHUDIN ZUGOR, SANDOR POTH, REINHARD KÜHN, MARIJA MAJA BERNAT, DANIEL PORRES and APOSTOLOS P. LABANARIS

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4285-4288;
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  Validity of Hepatic or Pancreatic Resection for Elderly Patients Aged 85 Years or Older at a Single Community Hospital in Japan

  SHINJI ITOH, SHUNJI KOHNOE, KEN SHIRABE, DAISUKE YOSHIDA, HIROFUMI KAWANAKA, TOMOHARU YOSHIZUMI, TORU IKEGAMI, YO-ICHI YAMASHITA, TAKESHI KURIHARA and YOSHIHIKO MAEHARA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4289-4292;
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  Investigating Urinary Conditions Prior to Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy in Search of a Desirable Method for Evaluating Post-prostatectomy Incontinence

  YOSHIFUMI KADONO, TAKAHIRO NOHARA, SUGURU KADOMOTO, KAZUFUMI NAKASHIMA, MASASHI IIJIMA, KAZUYOSHI SHIGEHARA, KAZUTAKA NARIMOTO, KOUJI IZUMI and ATSUSHI MIZOKAMI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4293-4298;
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  Efficacy and Safety of Regorafenib or TAS-102 in Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer Refractory to Standard Therapies

  TOSHINORI SUEDA, DAISUKE SAKAI, TOSHIHIRO KUDO, TAKASHI SUGIURA, HIDEKAZU TAKAHASHI, NAOTSUGU HARAGUCHI, JUNICHI NISHIMURA, TAISHI HATA, TARO HAYASHI, TSUNEKAZU MIZUSHIMA, YUICHIRO DOKI, MASAKI MORI and TAROH SATOH

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4299-4306;
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  Synchronous Quadruple Primary Neoplasms: Colon Adenocarcinoma, Collision Tumor of Neuroendocrine Tumor and Schwann Cell Hamartoma and Sessile Serrated Adenoma of the Appendix

  MARSHALL W. MEEKS, SHANE GRACE, YONGXIN CHEN, JAMES PETTERCHAK, EDWARD BOLESTA, YIHUA ZHOU and JIN-PING LAI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4307-4311;
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  Fluorodeoxyglucose Uptake in Advanced Non-small Cell Lung Cancer With and Without Pulmonary Lymphangitic Carcinomatosis

  HEAN OOI, CHING-YUAN CHEN, YU-CHUN HSIAO, WEN-SHENG HUANG and BOR-TSUNG HSIEH

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4313-4320;
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  Primary and Secondary Soft Tissue Angiosarcomas: Prognostic Significance of Surgical Margins in 43 Patients

  KAMRAN HARATI, ADRIEN DAIGELER, OLE GOERTZ, JENS BÖHM, KIM LANGE, INGO STRICKER, JONAS KOLBENSCHLAG and MARCUS LEHNHARDT

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4321-4328;
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  Favorable Disease-free Survival Associated with Programmed Death Ligand 1 Expression in Patients with Surgically Resected Small-cell Lung Cancer

  GOUJI TOYOKAWA, KAZUKI TAKADA, NAOKI HARATAKE, SHINKICHI TAKAMORI, TAKAKI AKAMINE, MASAKAZU KATSURA, TAKATOSHI FUJISHITA, FUMIHIRO SHOJI, TATSURO OKAMOTO, YOSHINAO ODA and YOSHIHIKO MAEHARA

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4329-4336;
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  Implications of Long-term Indwelling of Tissue Expander in Breast Reconstruction: Risk of Expander Rupturing

  TAKAAKI FUJII, REINA YAJIMA and HIROYUKI KUWANO

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4337-4340;
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  Outcome and Follow-up of Patients with Endometrial Carcinoma Diagnosed on Operative Hysteroscopic Resection Specimens

  JULIA AUMIPHIN, PATRICE CROCHET, SOPHIE KNIGHT, XAVIER CARCOPINO, LUDOVIC CRAVELLO, LEON BOUBLI and AUBERT AGOSTINI

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4341-4345;
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  The Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of sIL-2R as an Immune Biomarker in Head and Neck Cancers

  MENACHEM GROSS, AMICHAY MEIROVICH, JAKOB RACHMUT, INA KALICHMAN, TAMAR PERETZ, RON ELIASHAR and VIVIAN BARAK

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4347-4352;
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  Semi-automatic Volumetric Measurement of Treatment Response in Hepatocellular Carcinoma After Trans-arterial Chemoembolization

  JOHANNES BUDJAN, ELKE A. SAUTER, JOHN N. MORELLI, MARCO NOLDEN, ANDREAS FETZER, LOTHAR PILZ, MIRIAM REICHERT, THERESA BRANDT, JAN HANSMANN, STEFAN HANEDER, NILS RATHMANN, STEFFEN J. DIEHL, HANS-PETER MEINZER, STEFAN O. SCHOENBERG and ULRIKE I. ATTENBERGER

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4353-4358;
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  Comparison of the Mammography, Contrast-Enhanced Spectral Mammography and Ultrasonography in a Group of 116 patients

  ELZBIETA LUCZYŃSKA, SYLWIA HEINZE, AGNIESZKA ADAMCZYK, JANUSZ RYS, JERZY W. MITUS and EDWARD HENDRICK

  Anticancer Research August 2016, 36 (8) 4359-4366;