How effective are oral hyoscine butylbromide and paracetamol for the relief of crampy abdominal pain?

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Howard Mertz. Nat Clin Pract Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007 Jan.

. 2007 Jan;4(1):10-1.

doi: 10.1038/ncpgasthep0688.

¹ Vanderbilt University, St Thomas Hospital, Suite 309, 4230 Harding Road, West Nashville, TN 37205, USA. hmertz@comcast.net

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