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[Oncologic emergency in the abdomen]

Nobutaka Sato1, Naoko Hayashi, Yuu Imamura

  • 1Dept. of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.

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