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Progress: Fads, fancies and facts

  • The Joseph M. Mathews Oration
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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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    Maus W. Stearns Jr. M.D.

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Read at the meeting of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, Hollywood, Florida, May 11 to 16, 1980.

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Stearns, M.W. Progress: Fads, fancies and facts. Dis Colon Rectum 23, 289–292 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586828

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