Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease An Update
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CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Ching-Liang Lu, MD Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science
سال: 1970
ISSN: 2076-0299,2223-4721
DOI: 10.3329/bjms.v9i1.5227