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Ikeda, N. Reply to the letter to the editor: simple technique for gasless transumbilical single-incisional laparoscopic-assisted appendectomy. Langenbecks Arch Surg 399, 675–676 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00423-014-1206-6
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