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Clinical review| Volume 93, ISSUE 6, P733-746, June 1983

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Synthetic vascular graft infections. I. Graft infections

  • T.J. Bunt
    Correspondence
    Reprint requests: T. J. Bunt, M.D., Department of Surgery, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, 3321 Medical Park Rd., Suite 300, Columbia, SC 29203.
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    From the Department of Surgery, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, S.C. U.S.A.
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