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A blind man with an acute abdomen
Arghya Chattopadhyay1, Ajay Savlania2, Sanjay Jain1
1Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology Services, Department of Internal Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Rheumatology (Oxford, England)
|November 27, 2018
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