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  1. Department of Engineering & IRC in Biomedical Materials, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK

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Haalboom, J. (2005). Medical Perspectives in the 21st Century. In: Bader, D.L., Bouten, C.V., Colin, D., Oomens, C.W. (eds) Pressure Ulcer Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28804-X_2

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