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Letter to Editor Reply to: “Centralization of Pancreatic Surgery in Europe: an Update”

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  1. Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Faik G. Uzunoglu, Asmus Heumann, Adam Polonski & Jakob R. Izbicki

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Uzunoglu, F.G., Heumann, A., Polonski, A. et al. Letter to Editor Reply to: “Centralization of Pancreatic Surgery in Europe: an Update”. J Gastrointest Surg 23, 2324–2325 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-019-04387-7

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