Mortality in Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Haemorrhage: a Six-year Survey from the University Hospital of Wales

Overview

Journal Postgrad Med J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty General Medicine

Date 1981 Oct 1

PMID 6977767

Citations 4

Authors

J F Mayberry

W J Penny

B R Counsell

J Rhodes

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