Experiences with the use of the Port-a-Cath in children*
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Presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, Halifax, Nova Scotia, August 28–30, 1986.
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From the Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa.
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