Multiple doctors, different recommendations for multiloculated pyogenic hepatic abscesses
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Percutaneous hepatic abscess drainage: do multiple abscesses or multiloculated abscesses preclude drainage or affect outcome?
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Research In Practice: The Journal of Team Hippocrates
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2379-4550
DOI: 10.22237/crp/1518739320