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Surgical Incision

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Surgery in Wounds

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Surgical incision means the intentional wounding of a patient in order to treat his discomforts.

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  1. K. Schmidt
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  2. U. E. Ziegler
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Service des Brûles, Hôpital Lapeyronie, 391 Avenue du Doyen Giraud, 34255, Montpellier Cedex, France

    Luc Téot (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Plastic Surgery, Radcliffe Infirmary, Woodstock Road, OX2 8HE, Oxford, Oxon, UK

    Paul E. Banwell BSc MB BS FrCS

  3. Plastische Chirurgie und Handchirurgie, Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, Josef-Schneider-Str.2, 97080, Würzburg, Germany

    Ulrich E. Ziegler

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Schmidt, K., Ziegler, U.E. (2004). Surgical Incision. In: Téot, L., Banwell, P.E., Ziegler, U.E. (eds) Surgery in Wounds. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59307-9_17

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