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Case report| Volume 22, ISSUE 5, P418-419, September 1991

Death following non-operative management of blunt liver trauma

  • J.S. Bender
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    Requests for reprints should be addressed to: Jeffrey S. Bender md, Department of Surgery, Francis Scott Key Medical Center, 4940 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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    Department of Surgery, Detroit Receiving Hospital and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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  • M.A. Levison
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    Department of Surgery, Detroit Receiving Hospital and Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(91)90112-R
Death following non-operative management of blunt liver trauma
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      Accepted: February 4, 1991

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-1383(91)90112-R

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      © 1991 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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