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Acute colonic pseudo-obstruction (Ogilvie's syndrome)

✍ Scribed by M. Wegener; G. Börsch


Publisher
Springer
Year
1987
Tongue
English
Weight
917 KB
Volume
1
Category
Article
ISSN
0930-2794

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