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Does Increased Duodenal Intraepithelial Lymphocytosis Always Equate With Marsh 1 Lesion?
1Departments of *Internal Medicine†Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|August 11, 2016
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