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A 5-mm trocar site paramedian early onset voluminous hernia: still in doubt?
Antonio Pellegrino1, Gianluca Raffaello Damiani2, Giuseppe Trojano3
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ASTT LECCO, Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni, Lecco, Italy.
Updates in Surgery
|January 25, 2018
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