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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    I. R. McDougall M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D.

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McDougall, I.R. Invited commentary. World J. Surg. 2, 285–287 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01561495

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