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Editorial
. 2017 Mar 23:2:21.
doi: 10.21037/tgh.2017.03.12. eCollection 2017.

Decision making, quality of life and prophylactic gastrectomy in carriers of pathogenic CDH1 mutations

Geoffrey Roberts  1   2 , Richard Hardwick  2 , Rebecca C Fitzgerald  3
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Editorial

Decision making, quality of life and prophylactic gastrectomy in carriers of pathogenic CDH1 mutations

Geoffrey Roberts et al. Transl Gastroenterol Hepatol. .
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