Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 173-174 , March 2010

Clinical relevance of the expression of somatostatin receptors in digestive endocrine tumours

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.12.009

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 3 , Pages 173-174 , March 2010

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