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Original Article

A significant proportion of patients with choledocholithiasis have markedly elevated alanine aminotransferase

Helgi K. BjörnssonDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; ;Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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Einar S. BjörnssonDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, The National University Hospital of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; ;Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 1155-1159 | Received 27 Jul 2019, Accepted 13 Aug 2019, Published online: 03 Sep 2019

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