Assessing the role of pleural fluid in current cancer diagnostic pathway.

C. Doig (Chertsey, United Kingdom), C. Butter (Chertsey, United Kingdom), N. Hadjisavvas (Chertsey, United Kingdom), S. Saikia (Chertsey, United Kingdom), A. Fawzi (Chertsey, United Kingdom), M. Hewish (Chertsey, United Kingdom), S. Sharma (Chertsey, United Kingdom)

Source: Virtual Congress 2020 – Management issues in thoracic oncology
Session: Management issues in thoracic oncology
Session type: E-poster session
Number: 2923
Disease area: Thoracic oncology

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