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Surgery for toxic megacolon: Experience with the Turnbull-Weakley technique

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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    Read at the meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Detroit, Michigan, June 10 to 14, 1973.

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    Shipp, J.D. Surgery for toxic megacolon: Experience with the Turnbull-Weakley technique. Dis Colon Rectum 17, 342–346 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586978

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