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. 1984 Oct;50(4):541–544. doi: 10.1038/bjc.1984.213

Limitations of the agar colony-forming assay for the assessment of paediatric tumours.

G A Ablett, P J Smith, J W Sheridan, M G Lihou

PMCID: PMC1976894 PMID: 6091726

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