Surgical Specimen Management: A Descriptive Study of 648 Adverse Events and Near Misses
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0003-9985,1543-2165
DOI: 10.5858/arpa.2016-0021-oa