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Editorial - the short bowel syndrome: underdiagnosis or Undertreatment?

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  1. Department of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    M. A. Stokes & T. F. Gorey

  2. Department of Surgery, Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Eccles Street, Dublin 7, Ireland

    M. A. Stokes

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Stokes, M.A., Gorey, T.F. Editorial - the short bowel syndrome: underdiagnosis or Undertreatment?. I.J.M.S. 163, 53–55 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943014

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