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Volume 199, Issue 2 , Pages e27-e28 , February 2010

Infected primary retroperitoneal teratoma presenting as a subhepatic abscess in a postpartum woman

Fuyu Li, M.D.
- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
- Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +86 02 885422468; fax: +86 02 885422463
Sanjay Munireddy, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lisheng Jiang, M.D.
- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Nansheng Cheng, M.D.
- Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Hui Mao, M.D.
- Department of Medicine, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
Timothy M. Pawlik, M.D.
- Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

Received 21 January 2009 ,Revised 19 March 2009

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