Toothpick Impaction: Treatment by Colonoscopy
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Toothpick impaction in a sigmoid diverticulum.
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عنوان ژورنال: Endoscopy
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0013-726X,1438-8812
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1004339