Altered anatomy ERCP with spiral overtube-assisted stent placement
Jason B Samarasena1, Jason Y Huang1, Matthew Chin1
1H. H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center, Division of Gastroenterology, University of California - Irvine, Orange, California, USA.
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
|May 4, 2016
Abstract
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