Limited value of alarm features in the diagnosis of upper gastrointestinal malignancy: systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Published in Gastroenterology on August 01, 2006

Authors

Nimish Vakil1, Paul Moayyedi, M Brian Fennerty, Nicholas J Talley

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin 53233, USA. nvakil@wisc.edu

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