Management of Haematemesis in a District Hospital--can We Do Better?

Overview

Journal Postgrad Med J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1986 Oct 1

PMID 3774721

Citations 1

Authors

M V Madden

R A Spence

Affiliations

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Citing Articles

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