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Editorial
. 2019 Apr-Jun;9(2):51-53.
doi: 10.4103/2229-5151.261467.

What's new in critical illness and injury science? Management of the open abdomen: Getting it together!

Prerna Ladha  1 , Michael Callander  1 , Ziad C Sifri  1
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Editorial

What's new in critical illness and injury science? Management of the open abdomen: Getting it together!

Prerna Ladha et al. Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci. 2019 Apr-Jun.
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