Preoperative diagnosis for common bile duct stones in patients undergoing cholecystectomy
✍ Scribed by Gabriel Gómez
- Book ID
- 117598253
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 85 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-4356
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