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(2018) Kjetil Søreide et al.   HPB

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(2017) Hayato Yamana et al.   JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY

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Comparison of Perioperative Outcomes between Open, Laparoscopic, and Robotic Distal Pancreatectomy: an Analysis of 1815 Patients from the ACS-NSQIP Procedure-Targeted Pancreatectomy Database

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(2016) Yun Shin Chun   ANNALS OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY

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