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Laparostomy: why and when?

Ari K Leppäniemi

Author Affiliations

Department of Surgery, Meilahti Hospital, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 4, PO Box 340, 00029 Hus, Finland

Critical Care 2010, 14:216 doi:10.1186/cc8857

Published: 9 March 2010

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2010 (Springer Verlag) and co-published as a series in Critical Care. Other articles in the series can be found online at http://ccforum.com/series/yearbook webcite. Further information about the Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/2855 webcite.