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Chapter 14 - Biliary Ultrasound

from Part II - Ultrasound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2017

By
William Scruggs  and
Laleh Gharahbaghian
Edited by
J. Christian Fox
J. Christian Fox
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Clinical Emergency Radiology , pp. 211 - 226
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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