Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 791-794 , May 2001

Additional medical information: Prevalence, source, and benefit to parents

Presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Château Montebello, Quebec, Canada, September 15-18, 2000.

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 Address reprint requests to Agostino Pierro, MD, FRCS (Eng), FRCS (Ed), FAAP, Department of Paediatric Surgery, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London WC1N 1EH, England.

PII: S0022-3468(01)47110-7

doi: 10.1053/jpsu.2001.22962

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 791-794 , May 2001