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Case Report

Fatal Liver Infection Caused By Clostridium perfringens After Common Bile Duct Stenting Due To Pancreatic Cancer: A Case Report

Jingyong Xu1 Department of General Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Centre of Gerontology, Beijing100730, People’s Republic of ChinaORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-4942-2557
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Yanbin Wang2 Department of General Surgery, Beijing Aero Space General Hospital, Beijing100076, People’s Republic of China
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Hongyuan Cui1 Department of General Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Centre of Gerontology, Beijing100730, People’s Republic of China
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Jian Chen1 Department of General Surgery, Beijing Hospital, National Centre of Gerontology, Beijing100730, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 3343-3347 | Published online: 24 Oct 2019

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