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Diagnosis and Management of Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Children

Susan Owensby, Kellee Taylor and Thad Wilkins
The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine January 2015, 28 (1) 134-145; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2015.01.140153

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