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01-04-2013 | Letter to the Editor

Don't give up on wound protectors yet

Author: K. Slim

Published in: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery | Issue 4/2013

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Dear Editor, …

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Title: Don't give up on wound protectors yet
Author: K. Slim
Publication date: 01-04-2013
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery / Issue 4/2013
Print ISSN: 1435-2443
Electronic ISSN: 1435-2451
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-013-1066-5

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