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Retained umbilical artery catheter presenting as an umbilical abscess
  1. R KOTNIS,
  2. A SALLOUM,
  3. R HITCHCOCK
  1. Department of Paediatric Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford

https://doi.org/10.1136/fn.83.1.F74e

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