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Clinical features - Review

The ‘reversibility’ of chronic atrophic gastritis after the eradication of Helicobacter pylori

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Pages 474-479 | Received 05 Jan 2022, Accepted 31 Mar 2022, Published online: 13 Apr 2022

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