Tough to Swallow: Esophageal Food Impaction from Esophageal Amyloidosis

Overview

Journal Dig Dis Sci

Specialty Gastroenterology

Date 2016 Mar 11

PMID 26961786

Authors

Sonali Palchaudhuri

Toby Cornish

Casey Inouye

Ashish Nimgaonkar

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