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Brief Clinical Reports| Volume 127, ISSUE 5, P589-592, May 2000

Recombinant granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (rhu-GM-CSF) in the treatment of extensive leg ulcers: A case report

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      Surgery 2000;127:589–92.
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