The Foot
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 35-38 , March 2010

Tibial involvement in breast cancer: Issues in diagnosis and management

  • Shikha Goyal

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +91 98105 12844; fax: +91 11 26589243.
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  • Tarun Puri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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  • Ruchika Gupta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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  • Vaishali Suri

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
    • ,
  • Pramod K. Julka

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India
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  • Goura K. Rath

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiotherapy, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India

Received 19 August 2009 ,Accepted 6 October 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.foot.2009.10.001

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Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 35-38 , March 2010

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