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Vegiraju, V.K., Shetty, S., Leelakrishnan, V. et al. Role of noninvasive markers to predict the presence of esophageal varices in cirrhosis: Pilot study. Indian J Gastroenterol 37, 74–75 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-018-0834-0
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