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Preoperative Biliary Drainage of Severely Jaundiced Patients Increases Morbidity of Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Reply

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  1. 4th Department of Surgery, Attikon Hospital, University of Athens Medical School, 1 Rimini str, 12462, Chaidari, Greece

    Maria A. Kyriazi, Nikolaos Arkadopoulos & Vassilios Smyrniotis

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Kyriazi, M.A., Arkadopoulos, N. & Smyrniotis, V. Preoperative Biliary Drainage of Severely Jaundiced Patients Increases Morbidity of Pancreaticoduodenectomy: Reply. World J Surg 39, 804–805 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-014-2898-z

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