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Vol. 150 No. 1516 (2020)

Response of a European surgical department to the COVID-19 crisis

  • Andrea Peloso
  • Beat Moeckli
  • Graziano Oldani
  • Frédéric Triponez
  • Christian Toso
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20241
Published
09.04.2020

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