Abstract
Surgery 2000;128:862-4.
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Publication history
Accepted:
May 20,
2000
Footnotes
*Reprint requests: Lidia Schapira, MD, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 33 Pond Ave, #109, Brookline, MA 02146.
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© 2000 Mosby, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
