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EUS-guided portal pressure measurement: how to make it more accurate? Authors' response
Aniruddha Pratap Singh1, Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy2, Sundeep Lakhtakia3
1Medical Gastroenterology, AIG Hospitals, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
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|October 5, 2025
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