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Abridgment of original article read at the joint meeting of the American Proctologic Society and the Section of Proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 9 to 14, 1964.
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Gabriel, W.B. The thiersch operation for rectal prolapse. Dis Colon Rectum 7, 383–385 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02616848
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