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. 1966 Dec;7(6):644–661. doi: 10.1136/gut.7.6.644

An electron microscopic study of epithelium of normal human sigmoid colonic mucosa.

F E Pittman, J C Pittman
PMCID: PMC1552658  PMID: 5957517

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