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[Pyocele as a complication peritonitis in an preschooler]
Ángela Sánchez-Sánchez1, María Fernández-Ibieta1, Ramón Ruiz-Pruneda1
1Servicio de Cirugía Pediátrica, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca, Murcia, España.
Anales De Pediatria (Barcelona, Spain : 2003)
|March 6, 2016
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