Experience with ileostomy and colostomy in Crohn's disease
✍ Scribed by Professor S. Post; Ch. Herfarth; H. Schumacher; M. Golling; G. Schürmann; G. Timmermanns
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 550 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-1323
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