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The paradoxical effects of splenectomy on tumor growth
BACKGROUND: There is a vast and contradictory literature concerning the effect of the spleen and particularly of splenectomy on tumor growth. Sometimes splenectomy seems to inhibit tumor growth, but in other cases it seems, paradoxically, to facilitate both oncogenesis and the growth of established...
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BioMed Central
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1538594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16800890 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-4682-3-23 |