Management of Giant Splenic Artery Aneurysm
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poor content for compa in the review studies w evaluated by Dr Akbulu Editor: Baolin Liu. Received: January 26, 2015; revised: April 1, 2015; accepted: May 22, 2015. Department of Surgery and Liver Transplant Institute, Inonu University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey. Correspondence: Sami Akbulut, Department of Surgery and Liver Transplant Institute, Inonu University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya 44280, Turkey (e-mail: [email protected]). A.S. designed the literature review and organized the report; A.S. and O.E. wrote the paper. This study was not supported financially and did not receive any kind of grants. The authors have no funding and conflicts of interest to disclose. Copyright # 2015 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ISSN: 0025-7974 DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000001016
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