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Endoscopic management of biliary tract disease

P R Pfau1, M L Kochman

  • 1Gastroenterology Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.

Current Opinion in Gastroenterology
|October 7, 2006
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