Variation profiles of common surgical procedures.

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• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  Surgery

• Publication date

  1998-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0039-6060(98)70017-0PMID 9823407
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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