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“Combined” small cell and “pure” small cell lung cancer: is there a clinical difference?

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  1. Department of Respiratory Medicine Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawaharacho, Sakyo-ku, 606-8507, Kyoto, Japan

    Young Hak Kim & Michiaki Mishima

  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin-Kawaharacho, Sakyo-ku, 606-8507, Kyoto, Japan

    Hiroshi Date

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Kim, Y.H., Mishima, M. & Date, H. “Combined” small cell and “pure” small cell lung cancer: is there a clinical difference?. Med Oncol 30, 600 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12032-013-0600-1

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