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Anal Abscess (cont.)

Authors and Editors

Author: Drew E Fenton, MD

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Previous Medical Editors: Steven C Gabaeff, MD, FAAEM, Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Sutter Amador Hospital, Jackson, CA; Expert Consultant, Medical Board of California, Sacramento, CA; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; James Quinn, MD, Director of Research Department of Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine University of California at San Francisco Medical Center.


Last Editorial Review: 5/22/2007




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