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Cholecystectomy Following Idiopathic Pancreatitis: How Much to Look for Stones?

Correspondence re Stevens, et al.: How Does Cholecystectomy Influence Recurrence of Idiopathic Acute Pancreatitis? J Gastrointest Surg (2016) 20:1997–2001

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    Artem Shmelev, Gopal C. Kowdley & Steven Clark Cunningham

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Shmelev, A., Kowdley, G.C. & Cunningham, S.C. Cholecystectomy Following Idiopathic Pancreatitis: How Much to Look for Stones?. J Gastrointest Surg 21, 1196–1197 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11605-017-3441-y

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