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Yoo Shin Choi1, Jae Hyuk Do2, Suk Won Seo1

  • 1Department of Surgery, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.

Yonsei Medical Journal
|September 6, 2016
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Gallbladderchronic hepatitis Bpolypoid lesionprevalencerisk factor

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