Explaining racial variation in lower extremity amputation: a 5-year retrospective claims data and medical record review at an urban teaching hospital.

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• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Archives of Surgery

• Publication date

  2003-12-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Sociology

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  DOI 10.1001/ARCHSURG.138.12.1347PMID 14662537
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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