Pathology of infected mesh

Hernia Infections: Pathophysiology - Diagnosis - Treatment - Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 67-87

  Offner, Felix A ^a   Klosterhalfen, Bernd ^b  

^a Academic Teaching Hospital Feldkirch   (Austria)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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