Wound infections after preoperative depilatory versus razor preparation

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• Publication year

  1971

• Venue

  American Journal of Surgery

• Publication date

  1971-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/0002-9610(71)90199-1
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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