Obstructing Small Bowel Bezoars Due to an Agar Diet: Diagnosis Using Double Balloon Enteroscopy

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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine

سال: 2008

ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235

DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.47.0520