Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 2 , Pages 291-295 , August 2009

Intestinal lengthening in rats after massive small intestinal resection

,Accepted 10 March 2009.

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 Supported by the Fubon Foundation and the March of Dimes Foundation.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00257-8

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.03.034

Surgery
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