Surgery
Volume 147, Issue 3 , Pages 313-317 , March 2010

Research and the independent academic medical center

  • Thomas S. Helling, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Thomas S. Helling, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS 39216.

,Accepted 16 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.01.021

Surgery
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