Incidental finding of Chilaiditi’s sign in an elderly individual with sarcopenia
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1828-0447,1970-9366
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-015-1364-8