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. 2001 Jul;49(1):2–4. doi: 10.1136/gut.49.1.2

Prospects for intervention in gastric carcinogenesis: reversibility of gastric atrophy and intestinal metaplasia

M DIXON 1
PMCID: PMC1728347  PMID: 11413099

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