Analysis of weight changes after left gastric artery embolization in a cancer-naive population
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You may cite this article as: Kim DJ, Raman HS, Salter A, Ramaswamy R, Gunn AJ, Weiss CR, Akinwande O. Analysis of weight changes after left gastric artery embolization in a cancer-naive population. Diagn Interv Radiol 2018; 24:94–97. From the Division of Interventional Radiology (D.J.K., H.S.R., R.R., O.A. [email protected]) Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and Biostatistics and Department of Neurology (A.S.), Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA; Division of Interventional Radiology A.J.G.), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; Division of Interventional Radiology (C.R.W.), Department of Radiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
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