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LETTER: Colitic Cancer Developed After Introduction of Azathioprine

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  1. Department of Surgery, Omiya Medical School, Jichi Medical Center, 1-847 Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, 330-8503, Japan

    Jun-Ichi Sasaki

  2. Omiya Medical School, Jichi Medical Center, 1-847 Amanuma-cho, Omiya-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, 330-8503, Japan

    Yutaka J. Kawamura, Fumio Konishi & Tsutomu Tosha

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Sasaki, JI., Kawamura, Y.J., Konishi, F. et al. LETTER: Colitic Cancer Developed After Introduction of Azathioprine. Dig Dis Sci 49, 1727–1729 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:DDAS.0000043393.67919.fe

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