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Inguinal hernia outcome studies and the house that Lichtenstein built

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Kingsnorth, A.N. Inguinal hernia outcome studies and the house that Lichtenstein built. Hernia 3, 109–111 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01195305

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