Pancreatic Tumor Presenting as Diarrhea
Kalpit Devani1, Dhara Chaudhari2, Mark Young2
1Department of Internal Medicine, Quillen College of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, 325 N State of Franklin, Johnson City, TN, 37604, USA. kalpit_devani@yahoo.com.
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
|October 11, 2015
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