Retained Foreign Bodies

Advances in Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue C, 2008, Pages 183-191

  Greenberg, Caprice C ^a,b   Gawande, Atul A ^a,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; REVIEW; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL SPONGE;

FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL SPONGES;

EID: 49849102602     PISSN: 00653411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yasu.2008.03.007     Document Type: Review

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