Corrosive injuries of the esophagus in newborns
✍ Scribed by Cüneyt Turan; Uğur Özkan; Bülent Hayri Özokutan; Musa Özdemir; Hamit Okur; Mustafa Küçükaydın
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 48 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0179-0358
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