Wound healing – a practical algorithm
✍ Scribed by William J. Jeffcoate
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 72 KB
- Volume
- 28
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1520-7552
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