Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 949-954 , July 2002

Mass screening for neuroblastoma in Japan: Lessons learned and future directions

Presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, California, October 19-21, 2001.

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☆ Address reprint requests to Sachiyo Suita, MD, PhD, FACS, Pediatric Surgery, Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan.

PII: S0022-3468(02)00001-5

doi: 10.1053/jpsu.2002.33814

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 949-954 , July 2002

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