Lymphangioma of the small bowel mesentery: a rare intra-abdominal tumor causing anemia.

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol

Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Published: August 2013

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