Acute abdomen is not always surgical amid the COVID-19 pandemic
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Acute care surgery and COVID-19 pandemic: the voice of emergency surgical services
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Surgery
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0007-1323,1365-2168
DOI: 10.1002/bjs.11883