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  1. University of Ulm c/o University Hospital Ulm, Steinhoevelstraße 9, 89075, Ulm, Germany

    Hans G. Beger MD

  2. Department of Surgery I, Tohoku University, Medical School, 980-8574, Sendai, Japan

    Seiki Matsuno MD  & Makoto Sunamura MD, PhD  & 

  3. The Johns Hopkins University, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2196, USA

    John L. Cameron MD, PhD

  4. Department of General, Thoracic, Vascular and Transplantation Surgery, University of Rostock, Schillingallee 35, 18057, Rostock, Germany

    Bettina M. Rau MD

  5. The Sidney Kimmel Cancer Research Center, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1650 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD, 21231-1000, USA

    Richard D. Schulick MD

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Rau, B.M. (2008). Biochemical Diagnosis, Staging, and Prediction. In: Beger, H.G., Matsuno, S., Cameron, J.L., Rau, B.M., Sunamura, M., Schulick, R.D. (eds) Diseases of the Pancreas. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28656-1_19

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