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Ryohei Ando1, Chiaki Sato2, Toshiaki Fukutomi1

  • 1Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1, Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8574, Japan.

Clinical Journal of Gastroenterology
|February 2, 2021
PubMed

Keywords:
AchalasiaEmpyemaEsophageal rupturePer-oral endoscopic myotomy

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