Exercises in Clinical Reasoning: Digesting a Bloated Differential Diagnosis

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Gregory.Habig@jefferson.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Gregory Habig et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2021 Jul.

. 2021 Jul;36(7):2139-2143.

doi: 10.1007/s11606-021-06692-x. Epub 2021 Mar 25.

¹ Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Gregory.Habig@jefferson.edu.
² Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
³ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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