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Pathophysiology

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Characterize the pathophysiological processes in abdominal emergencies.

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  1. Chief of Emergency Surgery, Meilahti Hospital, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Ari Leppäniemi MD, PhD, DMCC

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  1. Ari Leppäniemi MD, PhD, DMCC
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Correspondence to Ari Leppäniemi MD, PhD, DMCC .

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  1. Surgical Research Department, Clinical Division for General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Abe Fingerhut

  2. Department of Abdominal Surgery, University of Helsinki Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

    Ari Leppäniemi

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health Sciences, San Diego, California, USA

    Raul Coimbra

  4. Division of General Surgery, University of Pittsburgh UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Andrew B. Peitzman

  5. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Thomas M. Scalea

  6. Emergency Surgery Unit, University Hospitals of Lyon Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France

    Eric J. Voiglio

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Leppäniemi, A. (2016). Pathophysiology. In: Fingerhut, A., Leppäniemi, A., Coimbra, R., Peitzman, A., Scalea, T., Voiglio, E. (eds) Emergency Surgery Course (ESC®) Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21338-5_4

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