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Predictors of outcome in patients requiring surgery for liver trauma

,Accepted 31 August 2006.

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☆ Presented at the 41st Congress of the International Society of Surgery, Durban, South Africa, 21–25 August 2005.

PII: S0020-1383(06)00569-9

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.08.064

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