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Edior’s quiz
A “stitch in time”
  1. D Prichard1,
  2. A Zaheer1,
  3. N Ravi2,
  4. J Reynolds2,
  5. N Mahmud1
  1. 1
    Department of Clinical Medicine, St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  2. 2
    Department of Clinical Surgery, Trinity College and St James’s Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
  1. Correspondence to Dr N Mahmud, Department of Clinical Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, St James’s Hospital, Dublin-8, Ireland; nmahmud{at}tcd.ie

https://doi.org/10.1136/gut.2008.169508

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    • Robin Spiller, editor

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.