Beyond counting: current evidence on the problem of retaining foreign bodies in surgery?

Editorial

Caprice C Greenberg et al. Ann Surg. 2008 Jan.

. 2008 Jan;247(1):19-20.

doi: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318160c194.

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