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adj- Composed of several parts formed or developed at various times.

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  • Adding sonography to yearly mammograms helps find metachronous cancers, February 25, 2008
  • This is a rare case of metachronous metastases invading the mesorectum and the abdominal wall.
  • We examined a total of 47 synchronous/metachronous primary CRC from 41 patients, and 41 gender, age (5-year intervals) and tumor location-paired patients with solitary...
  • Forty-one patients with either synchronous or metachronous CRC, and 41 gender, age and tumor location-paired patients with solitary tumors constituted the basis of this...
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