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Principles of Rodent Surgery for the New Surgeon
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Principles of Rodent Surgery for the New Surgeon

Published on: January 6, 2011

Historical sources of surgical practice

A W Beasley

    Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
    |October 5, 2010
    PubMed
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