Cost Benefit of Triclosan Sutures, But Is There a Benefit?

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Rick Nelson. Dis Colon Rectum. 2021.

. 2021 Jul 1;64(7):e397-e398.

doi: 10.1097/DCR.0000000000002051.

¹ University of Illinois Chicago, School of Public Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Division, Chicago, Illinois, altohorn@uic.edu.

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