Carpet villous adenoma of the rectum in an incarcerated rectal prolapse.

Trop Gastroenterol

1st Department of General Surgery, 417 NIMTS, Veterans Hospital of Athens, Monis Petraki 10-12, Athens, 11521, Greece.

Published: September 2013

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