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. 1973 May;177(5):519–526. doi: 10.1097/00000658-197305000-00003

Emergency subtotal colectomy: preferred approach to management of massively bleeding diverticular disease.

T Drapanas, D G Pennington, M Kappelman, E S Lindsey
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