What is a surgical complication?

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 942-944

  Sokol, Daniel K ^a   Wilson, James ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 43949121782     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-008-9471-6     Document Type: Editorial

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