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Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Elective Colorectal Surgery: Is it Enough?

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The authors have no financial interests or potential conflicts of interests with the present articles, nor have received any funding for its conduction. The first author had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.

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Gravante, G., Caruso, R. Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Elective Colorectal Surgery: Is it Enough?. J Gastrointest Surg 13, 1392–1394 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-008-0556-1

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