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. 2020 Mar;26(3):560-562.
doi: 10.1111/tbj.13602. Epub 2019 Sep 23.

Practice patterns regarding drains management in breast surgery: Results of a survey of Senonetwork Italia breast centers

Tiziano Pallara  1 , Lucio Fortunato  1 , Secondo Folli  2 , Manuela Roncella  3 , Nicolò Scuderi  4 , Daniele Friedman  5 , Zoran Arnez  6 , Diego Ribuffo  4 , Elena Manna  1 , Paolo Persichetti  7 ; Senonetwork Italia Breast Centres Responders
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Practice patterns regarding drains management in breast surgery: Results of a survey of Senonetwork Italia breast centers

Tiziano Pallara et al. Breast J. 2020 Mar.
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