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Letter to the Editor: High Rates of Readmission in Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Natural History or Opportunity for Improvement?

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  1. Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery, St Vincents Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Eugenia Ip & Douglas Fenton-Lee

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EI and DF-L composed this letter to the editor and synthesizing of references. Both authors gave their final approval of the version to be published.

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Ip, E., Fenton-Lee, D. Letter to the Editor: High Rates of Readmission in Necrotizing Pancreatitis: Natural History or Opportunity for Improvement?. J Gastrointest Surg 24, 444–445 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-019-04440-5

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