Quality of life following thoracotomy for lung cancer

Lučka Debevec; Irma Rozman

doi:10.2478/v10019-007-0023-8

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Quality of life following thoracotomy for lung cancer

Radiology and Oncology

Volume 41 (2007): Issue 3 (September 2007)

By: Lučka Debevec and Irma Rozman

Open Access

|Dec 2007

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