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Original Article

Portal Hypertension and Esophageal Varices in Cystic Fibrosis: Unreliability of Echo-Doppler Flowmetry

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Pages 1042-1046 | Received 14 Jan 1993, Accepted 24 May 1993, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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