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. 1966 Oct;7(5):458–467. doi: 10.1136/gut.7.5.458

Clinical, histochemical, and electron microscopic study of colonic histiocytosis.

F E Pittman, W T Smith, A Mizrahi, W A Blanc, J C Pittman

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