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The sigmoidal curve

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, California

    Walter D. Birnbaum M.D.

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Read at the Meeting of the American Proctologic Society, Las Vegas, Nevada, May 10 to 13 1971

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Birnbaum, W.D. The sigmoidal curve. Dis Colon Rectum 15, 85–92 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02587249

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