The Natural History of Gallstones and Asymptomatic Gallstones

Surgery of the Liver, Biliary Tract and Pancreas: Volumes 1-2, Fourth Edition

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 477-481

  Saldinger, P F ^a,b,c  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

^c DANBURY HOSPITAL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-3256-4.50041-7     Document Type: Chapter

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