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Chapter 42 - MRI of the Abdomen

from Part IV - Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2017

By
Lance Beier ,
Nilasha Ghosh ,
Andrew Berg  and
Andrew Wong
Edited by
J. Christian Fox
J. Christian Fox
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Clinical Emergency Radiology , pp. 568 - 582
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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