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[Hook knife method of ESD for early esophageal cancer]

Dai Hirasawa1, Tsuneo Oyama

  • 1Department of Gastroenterology, Sendai City Medical Center.

Nihon Rinsho. Japanese Journal of Clinical Medicine
|April 5, 2012
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