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. 2022 Mar 5;3(2):e12701.
doi: 10.1002/emp2.12701. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Woman with abdominal pain and fever

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Woman with abdominal pain and fever

Aunika L Swenson et al. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. .
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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Computed tomography (coronal view) demonstrating a linear hyperdense object (white arrow) extending from the gastric pylorus into a heterogenous left hepatic lobe lesion (black arrow)

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