Abstract One hundred and fifteen patients were entered into a prospective randomized trial to establish whether midline abdominal incisions through the umbilicus produced any differences in the incidence of wound infection or failure when compared with the more conventional midline incision skirting
Circumumbilical incision for pyloromyotomy
โ Scribed by K. C. Tan; Mr A. Bianchi
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 125 KB
- Volume
- 73
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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