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Pulmonary embolism secondary to balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varix

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    Satoshi Nakayama & Naoya Murashima

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Nakayama, S., Murashima, N. Pulmonary embolism secondary to balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for gastric varix. Indian J Gastroenterol 32, 348–349 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12664-012-0278-x

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