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Catheter fracture: a rare complication of totally implantable venous devices

✍ Scribed by N.R Maisey; N Sacks; S.R.D Johnston


Book ID
114315465
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
159 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0960-9776

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