Letter to the editors [1] (multiple letters)

Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 472-473

  Andersson, Roland E B ^a   Frisch, Morten ^a  

^a RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; APPENDECTOMY; COLITIS; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SWEDEN; ULCERATIVE COLITIS; ADULT; AGE; NOTE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; APPENDECTOMY; COLITIS, ULCERATIVE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036549223     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2002.121920     Document Type: Letter

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