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Ji Hye Kweon1, Chang Soo Choi, Chong Ju Im

  • 1Digestive Disease Research Institute, Department of Internal Medicine, Wonkwang University College of Medicine, Iksan, Korea.

Gut and Liver
|June 19, 2010
PubMed

Keywords:
HemoperitoneumMalignant fibrous histiocytomaOmentum

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