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  1. University of Toronto, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

    Doruk Ozgediz

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

    Cephas Mijumbi

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Sudha Jayaraman

  4. Department of Anesthesia, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Gerald Dubowitz

  5. Department of Surgery, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

    Jacqueline Mabweijano, Moses Galukande & Sam Luboga

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Ozgediz, D., Mijumbi, C., Jayaraman, S. et al. Reply. World J Surg 33, 152–153 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-008-9771-x

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