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Peroral endoscopic myotomy: a 4-step approach to a challenging procedure
Mouen A Khashab1, Vivek Kumbhari1, Anthony N Kalloo1
1Department of Medicine and Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
|January 28, 2014
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