Toxic megacolon due to Salmonella acute infectious colitis requiring total colectomy following loop ileostomy closure
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عنوان ژورنال: ANZ Journal of Surgery
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1445-1433,1445-2197
DOI: 10.1111/ans.15973