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Modulation of the hypermetabolic response to trauma: temperature, nutrition, and drugs

Felicia N Williams1, Marc G Jeschke, David L Chinkes

  • 1Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA.

Journal of the American College of Surgeons
|May 30, 2009
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