Perforation from Ingested Wooden Toothpick: A Colon Diverticulitis Mimicker
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2514-8281
DOI: 10.5334/jbsr.1885