Possibilities of interventional endoscopic ultrasound
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1 Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Division of Internal Medicine, e University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030-1409, USA Department of Gastroenterology, Kyoto Second Red Cross Hospital, 355-5 Haruobi-cho, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto 602-8026, Japan Department of Gastroenterology, Changi Gen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: World Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1948-5190
DOI: 10.4253/wjge.v4.i7.301