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. 2006 Jul;90(7):814-6.
doi: 10.1136/bjo.2006.094276.

Wrong site surgery

S G Fraser  1 , W Adams
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Wrong site surgery

S G Fraser et al. Br J Ophthalmol. 2006 Jul.

Abstract

A great deal of work needs to be done to reduce and potentially eliminate this most basic of errors

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