CORR Insights®: Surgeon Personal Protection: An Underappreciated Benefit of Positive-pressure Exhaust Suits

Overview

Journal Clin Orthop Relat Res

Publisher Wolters Kluwer

Specialty Orthopedics

Date 2018 Apr 27

PMID 29698309

Citations 2

Authors

Alberto V Carli

Affiliations

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