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Health-related quality of life associated with immunocryosurgery, a minimally invasive modality, for cervicofacial basal cell carcinoma

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  1. Department of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

    Ioannis D. Bassukas, Areti Ganiatsa & Georgios Gaitanis

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Bassukas, I.D., Ganiatsa, A. & Gaitanis, G. Health-related quality of life associated with immunocryosurgery, a minimally invasive modality, for cervicofacial basal cell carcinoma. Eur J Dermatol 29, 234–236 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2019.3521

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