Gastrointestinal: Ultrasound-guided iatrogenic hydrothorax to permit drainage of a postoperative left subdiaphragmatic abscess
Y Eso1, S Hisamori2, S Tsunoda2
1Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
|April 5, 2016
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