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W Wacke1, U Hecker, C Woenckhaus

  • 1Division of Gastroenterology and Endocrinology, Ernst Moritz Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany. wacke@uni-greifswald.de

Endoscopy
|April 22, 2004
PubMed
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