The role of chest and abdominal computed tomography in assessing the severity of acute corrosive ingestion.

Clin Toxicol (Phila)

Israel Poison Information Center, Rambam Health Care Campus, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa , Israel.

Published: January 2014

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