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Behcet’s disease: a rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding

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  1. Department of Surgery, Morristown Memorial Hospital, 100 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ, 07960, USA

    Payam Jarrahnejad, Samir Gadepalli, Eugene Zurkovsky, Nirman Tulsyan & Rolando Rolandelli

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Jarrahnejad, P., Gadepalli, S., Zurkovsky, E. et al. Behcet’s disease: a rare cause of lower gastrointestinal bleeding. Int J Colorectal Dis 21, 856–858 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00384-004-0721-2

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