Waiting time to lymph node biopsy is dependent on referral method: don't write, phone!

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Published in Ann R Coll Surg Engl on September 25, 2009

Authors

S A J Pannick1, C L Ingham Clark

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Whittington Hospital, London, UK.

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