Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 233-241 , June 2010

Diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis: Functional testing

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpg.2010.03.008

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology
Volume 24, Issue 3 , Pages 233-241 , June 2010

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