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Volume-mortality for cystectomy. Centralisation of cancer services vindicated.

Paul J Cathcart, Jan van der Meulen, Mark Emberton, and John Kelly

BMJ 340(jun22 3):c3336 (2010) PMID 20570878

DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c3336
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