Peritoneal lavage: A necessary procedure or a nocturnal ritual without scientific evidence?;Le lavage péritonéal: Une nécessité ou un rituel nocturne sans preuve scientifique?

Annales de Chirurgie

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 221-222

  Slim, K ^a  

^a HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Acute peritonitis; Peritoneal lavage

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PERITONITIS;

EID: 0037696050     PISSN: 00033944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-3944(03)00062-2     Document Type: Editorial

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