Toward multimodal integration of colorectal cancer and chronic kidney disease: transcriptomic modeling as a framework for the SIRIO study “Spatial radiomics and transcriptomics to the discovery of the cross-link between colon cancer and chronic kidney disease”
By: Roberta Fusco, Vincenza Granata, Andrea Belli, Alessandra F Perna, Giovambattista Capasso, Michele Caraglia, Ugo Pace, Paolo Delrio, Ludovico Docimo, Claudio Gambardella, Francesco Saverio Lucido, Matteo Floris, Giorgia Locci, Matteo Runfola, Denise Giannascoli, Martina Izzo, Eugenio Sorgente, Margherita Borriello, Francesco Izzo, Mariadelina Simeoni and Antonella Petrillo
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