Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 843-853 , November 2009

Evaluation of long-term results and recurrent factors after operative and nonoperative treatment for hepatolithiasis

,Accepted 6 April 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.009

Surgery
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