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Authors Atif Iqbal, Brent Miedema, Archana Ramaswamy, Nicole Fearing, Roger DeLaTorre, Youngju Pak, Caleb Steffen, and Klaus Thaler have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
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Iqbal, A., Miedema, B., Ramaswamy, A. et al. Long-term outcome after endoscopic stent therapy for complications after bariatric surgery. Surg Endosc 25, 515–520 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-010-1203-y
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