Can morbidly obese patients safely lose weight preoperatively?
- 28 February 1995
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 169 (2) , 245-253
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9610(99)80145-7
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