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Medical Textiles for Implantation || The Effect of Bacteria on the Degradation of Absorbable Sutures

✍ Scribed by Planck, Heinrich; Dauner, Martin; Renardy, Monika

Book ID: 121391155
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 1990
Weight: 281 KB
Category: Article
ISBN: 3642758029
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-75802-7_18

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