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Total enteral nutrition or total parenteral nutrition for prophylaxis of infection in patients with severe acute pancreatitis?

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O'Keefe, S. Total enteral nutrition or total parenteral nutrition for prophylaxis of infection in patients with severe acute pancreatitis?. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 4, 488–489 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpgasthep0898

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