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Reliability of aminopyrine breath test using a single breath collection

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  1. Departments of Gastroenterology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Louvain Medical School, Av. Hippocrate, 10, 1200, Brussels, Belgium

    Y. Horsmans MD, A. P. Geubel MD & S. Pauwels MD

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Horsmans, Y., Geubel, A.P. & Pauwels, S. Reliability of aminopyrine breath test using a single breath collection. Digest Dis Sci 40, 1581 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02285212

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