Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 299-310 , June 2010

Surgical treatment in chronic pancreatitis timing and type of procedure

  • Kai Bachmann, MD (Fellow)

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  • Asad Kutup, MD (Consultant)

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  • Oliver Mann, MD (Consultant)

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  • Emre Yekebas, MD (Professor of Surgery)

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  • Jakob R. Izbicki, MD (Professor, Head of Department, FACS)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 40 741054403; fax: +49 40 741054995.

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpg.2010.03.003

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 299-310 , June 2010

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