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  1. Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and Brown University Program in Medicine, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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Singer, D.B. Invited commentary. World J. Surg. 4, 431–432 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02393168

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