Acute Necrotizing Esophagitis: An Autopsy Case Report and Literature Review
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30 pISSN 1225-0589 eISSN 2287-2078 cCopyright 2014 by the Korean Society for Legal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Korean J Leg Med 2014;38:30-33 http://dx.doi.org/10.7580/kjlm.2014.38.1.30
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