Abdominal Drainage After Elective Liver Resection

• Authors: Oskar Kornasiewicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

• Publisher: Index Copernicus International
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 80
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 395-397

Dates

published

1 - 7 - 2008

online

23 - 7 - 2008

Contributors

author

Oskar Kornasiewicz

• Department of General, Transplant and Liver Surgery, Medical University, Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10035-008-0053-y