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Ectopic Hormones in Lung Cancer

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Ergebnisse der Inneren Medizin und Kinderheilkunde/Advances in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

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Lung tumors may be classified by means of their clinical, histological and biological characteristics into two major groups: small cell carcinoma (SCC) and non-small cell carcinoma (NSCC) of the lung (see Table 1).

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Gropp, C., Luster, W., Havemann, K. (1984). Ectopic Hormones in Lung Cancer. In: Frick, P., von Harnack, GA., Kochsiek, K., Martini, G.A., Prader, A. (eds) Ergebnisse der Inneren Medizin und Kinderheilkunde/Advances in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Ergebnisse der Inneren Medizin und Kinderheilkunde/Advances in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, vol 53. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69841-5_5

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