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Chapter 4 - Plain Film Evaluation of the Abdomen

from Part I - Plain Radiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2017

By
Anthony J. Dean  and
Ross Kessler
Edited by
J. Christian Fox
J. Christian Fox
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Clinical Emergency Radiology , pp. 55 - 78
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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