Clinical Reasoning: A 39-year-old man with abdominal cramps
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Clinical reasoning: a 39-year-old man with abdominal cramps.
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0028-3878,1526-632X
DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0b013e31829a335e