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Chemotherapy Research and Practice
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 806256, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/806256
Review Article
Current Chemotherapeutic Management of Patients with Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, New England Trophoblastic Disease Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Received 20 January 2011; Accepted 1 March 2011
Academic Editor: Kazuo Tamura
Copyright © 2011 Taymaa May et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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