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Popular Surgeries Can Carry Risk of Being Burned
Feb 07, 2017
Launched in 2014, the FUSE program was funded by CRICO under a 2013 grant to Dr. Daniel Jones at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
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Grover , Glasser M, Sullivan C. Popular surgeries can carry risk of being burned. NBC Los Angeles. Feb. 7, 2017.
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