Unrelenting Abdominal Pain after Recent Initiation of a Direct Oral Anticoagulant: A Cause for Concern.

Gastroenterology

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Published: August 2019

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