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Society of University Surgeons| Volume 52, ISSUE 1, P103-116, July 1962

A comparative study of emergency transesophageal ligation and nonsurgical treatment of bleeding esophageal varices in unselected patients with cirrhosis

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:003960606290288X
A comparative study of emergency transesophageal ligation and nonsurgical treatment of bleeding esophageal varices in unselected patients with cirrhosis
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      Footnotes

      ☆Supported in part by United States Public Health Service Grant No. A-3048.

      ☆☆Read at the Twenty-third Annual Meeting of the Society of University Surgeons, Cleveland, Ohio. Feb. 8–10. 1962.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:003960606290288X

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