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Valerie Durkalski1, Walter Stewart, Paulette MacDougall

  • 1Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, 135 Cannon Street, Ste 303, Charleston, SC 29425, United States. durkalsv@musc.edu

World Journal of Gastroenterology
|September 17, 2010
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