Symptomatic and silent gall stones in the community.

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Published in Gut on March 01, 1991

Authors

K W Heaton1, F E Braddon, R A Mountford, A O Hughes, P M Emmett

Author Affiliations

1: University Department of Medicine, Bristol Royal Infirmary.

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