Gastroenterology

Gastroenterology

Volume 114, Issue 2, February 1998, Pages 421-422
Gastroenterology

Correspondence
Antimyenteric neuronal antibodies and motility

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Abstract

GASTROENTEROLOGY 1998;114:421-422

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