Clinical challenges and images in GI. Endoscopic ultrasound trucut needle biopsy of a rare pancreatic lesion.

Gastroenterology

Department of Gastroenterology, Pathology, and Immunology, Washington University in St Louis, St Louis, Missouri, USA.

Published: March 2009

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