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[Acute intestinal obstruction by a chicken bone]

Ammar Mahmoudi¹, Mabrouk Abdelali²

¹Service de Chirurgie Générale et Digestive, CHU Fattouma Bourguiba de Monastir, Tunisie.

The Pan African Medical Journal

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