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  1. Department of Breast Oncology, National Kyushu Cancer Center, Notame 3-1-1, Minami-ku, 811-1395, Fukuoka, Japan

    Shinji Ohno, Mayumi Ishida, Akemi Kataoka & Shigeru Murakami

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Ohno, S., Ishida, M., Kataoka, A. et al. Brain metastasis of breast cancer. Breast Cancer 11, 27–29 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02967997

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