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Multimorbidity Approach or Frailty for Predicting Morbidity and Mortality After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis: Is It the Same Concept?

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    Pascale Le Maguet & Gildas Gueret

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Le Maguet, P., Gueret, G. Multimorbidity Approach or Frailty for Predicting Morbidity and Mortality After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Acute Cholecystitis: Is It the Same Concept?. J Gastrointest Surg 26, 516–517 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-020-04746-9

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