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N E Seymour1, A G Gallagher, S A Roman

  • 1Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar Street, New Haven, CT 06520-8062, USA. neal.seymour@bhs.org

Surgical Endoscopy
|March 18, 2004
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