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Learning lessons for the future: assessments of demand and benefit are required in addition to training in single incision laparoscopic surgery

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  1. Department of Surgery and Cancer, St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London, 10th Floor QEQM, South Wharf Rd, Paddington, W2 1NY, London, UK

    Philip H. Pucher, Mikael H. Sodergren & Paraskevas Parakseva

  2. Academic Surgical Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, St. Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College London, Praed Street, W2 1NY, London, UK

    Mikael H. Sodergren

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Pucher, P.H., Sodergren, M.H. & Parakseva, P. Learning lessons for the future: assessments of demand and benefit are required in addition to training in single incision laparoscopic surgery. Surg Endosc 27, 4744–4745 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-013-3091-4

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