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. 2020 Nov;122(6):1257-1258.
doi: 10.1002/jso.26128. Epub 2020 Aug 12.

Informed surgical consent during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the risk of unknown

Pankaj Kumar Garg  1 , Pallvi Kaul  1 , Deepti Choudhary  2 , Sai Yendamuri  3
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Informed surgical consent during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring the risk of unknown

Pankaj Kumar Garg et al. J Surg Oncol. 2020 Nov.
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All the authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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