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. 2002 Nov;51(5):623-4.
doi: 10.1136/gut.51.5.623.

All that glitters is not gold

R P Mookerjee  1 , R Jalan
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All that glitters is not gold

R P Mookerjee et al. Gut. 2002 Nov.
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