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Moriah Wright, Alan Thorson, Garnet Blatchford, Maniamparampil Shashidharan, Jennifer Beaty, Noelle Bertelson, Piyush Aggrawal, Lindsay Taylor, Charles A. Ternent. What happens after a failed LIFT for anal fistula?. The American Journal of Surgery 2017; 214(6) doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2017.08.042
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