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Surgical myotomy for nutcracker esophagus

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  1. Department of Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Joel E. Richter MD &  Donald O. Castell MD

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Richter, J.E., Castell, D.O. Surgical myotomy for nutcracker esophagus. Digest Dis Sci 32, 95–96 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01296693

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