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Litigations in General Surgery

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A 65-year-old female underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy at an outlying small community hospital for cholelithiasis and history of biliary colic. She had a past history of mild hypertension that was well controlled on anti-hypertensive therapy, and no other medical illness.

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Fong, I.W. (2011). Litigations in General Surgery. In: Medico-Legal Issues in Infectious Diseases. Emerging Infectious Diseases of the 21st Century. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8053-3_11

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