Intra-abdominal infection

Surgical Critical Care, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 693-702

  Rotstein, Ori D ^a   Abrams, Jerome H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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