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mediastinitis rates in postoperative cardiac sternotomy Reggio Emilia (Italy) with a degree in medicine (2005) and
incisions. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2008;54:36–41. a postgraduate doctorate in surgery and emergency medicine
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ings containing silver. Ostomy Wound Manage. 2006;52: cine. He also attended an NBRC medicine course at Firenze
30–33. University. From 1997 to 2008, he was the physician of the
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