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Liver and Biliary Disease

Effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in cholecystectomy: A prospective population-based study of 1171 cholecystectomies

Bahman DarkahiDepartment of Surgery, Enköping Hospital, Enköping, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Per VidehultDepartment of Surgery, Västerås Hospital, västrås, Sweden
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Gabriel SandblomCLINTEC, Division of Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Haakan LiljeholmDepartment of Surgery, Enköping Hospital, Enköping, Sweden
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Mikael LjungdahlDepartment of Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
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Ib Christian RasmussenDepartment of Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
Pages 1242-1246 | Received 17 Apr 2012, Accepted 09 Jul 2012, Published online: 30 Jul 2012

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