[Failure to document may favor the patient in proof of malpractice]

A Thiede1, H-J Zimmermann

  • 1Chirurgischen Klinik und Poliklinik Würzburg (ZOM), Oberdürrbacherstr. 6, 97080 Würzburg.

Zentralblatt Fur Chirurgie
|February 26, 2011
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