Is there an optimal technique to treat the bleeding diverticulum? Is diverticular bleeding a recurrent disease?
Roy Soetikno1, Clement Wu2, Tonya Kaltenbach3
1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore ; National Cancer Center Singapore, Singapore ; Duke - National University Singapore Graduate Medical School, Singapore.
Endoscopy International Open
|November 4, 2015
Abstract
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