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Wang, G., Zhuo, N. & Liu, Z. Comment to: Association of active smoking on 30-day wound events and additional morbidity and mortality following inguinal hernia repair with mesh. Hernia (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10029-024-02965-6
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