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Helle Ø Kristensen1, Niels Christian Bjerregaard, Peter Rask

  • 1Department of Surgical Gastroenterology L, Aarhus University Hospital , Nørrebrogade 44, DK-8000 Aarhus C , Denmark.

Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology
|September 17, 2014
PubMed
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Keywords:
POEMendoscopic myotomyesophageal motility disordersnutcracker esophagus

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