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Case Reports
. 2005 Jun 7;172(12):1556.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.045143.

An elderly man with excruciating retrosternal pain and dysphagia

Ami Schattner  1 , Yuval Binder, Ehud Melzer
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Case Reports

An elderly man with excruciating retrosternal pain and dysphagia

Ami Schattner et al. CMAJ. .
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