Surgery
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The unsolved mystery of Johann Georg Wirsung and of (his?) pancreatic duct

  • Claudio Bassi, MD, FRCS

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Claudio Bassi, MD, FRCS, Department of Surgery, General Surgery B, G.B. Rossi Hospital, P.Le L.A. Scuro 10 – 37134, Verona, Italy.
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  • Giuseppe Malleo, MD

,Accepted 22 July 2010.

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PII: S0039-6060(10)00417-4

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2010.07.049

Surgery
Volume 149, Issue 1 , Pages 153-155 , January 2011

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