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How to Manage Drains in Major Hepatectomy in the Recent Era

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Acknowledgements

We thank Angela Morben, DVM, ELS, from Edanz (https://jp.edanz.com/ac) for editing a draft of this manuscript.

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This study was supported JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 21K15515.

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  1. Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreas Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan

    Shinji Onda, Kenei Furukawa, Mitsuru Yanagaki, Yosuke Igarashi, Hiroaki Shiba & Toru Ikegami

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Onda S: study conception and design, acquisition of data, and drafting of manuscript. Furukawa K, Yanagaki M, Igarashi Y, and Shiba H: acquisition of data. Ikegami T: study conception and design and critical revision of manuscript.

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Onda, S., Furukawa, K., Yanagaki, M. et al. How to Manage Drains in Major Hepatectomy in the Recent Era. J Gastrointest Surg 25, 2433–2434 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-021-05077-z

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