We still need to operate at night!

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Faiz, Omar ^a   Banerjee, Saswata ^a   Tekkis, Paris ^b   Papagrigoriadis, Savvas ^a   Rennie, John ^a   Leather, Andrew ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 37849019599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17497922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-7922-2-29     Document Type: Article

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