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Rapid Communication| Volume 32, ISSUE 3, P438, June 1936

Electrosurgical obliteration of gall bladder without drainage

As a means of reducing mortality (Report of 201 consecutive unselected cases)
  • Max Thorek
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    Affiliations
    Cook County Graduate School of Medicine Chicago, Ill., USA

    American Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., USA

    Cook County Hospital, Chicago, Ill., USA

    Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, etc. Chicago, Ill., USA
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  • Author Footnotes
    1 From the author's surgical services at the Cook County and American Hospitals and Cook County Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago, Ill.
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