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Emergency upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: Does haste make waste?

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Winans, C.S. Emergency upper gastrointestinal endoscopy: Does haste make waste?. Digest Dis Sci 22, 536–540 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01072509

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