Surgery
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 371-374 , September 2009

Non-randomized and randomized trials

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PII: S0263-9319(09)00157-4

doi: 10.1016/j.mpsur.2009.07.002

Surgery
Volume 27, Issue 9 , Pages 371-374 , September 2009

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