Presence of bilirubin in bronchobiliary fistula easily confirmed with urinary dipstick test and treated with embolization
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Copyright © 2017 The Korean Association of Internal 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 noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1226-3303 eISSN 2005-6648 http://www.kjim.org Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Kyung Hee University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Presence of bilirubin in bronchobiliary fistula easily confirmed with urinary dipstick test and treated with embolization
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