A Huge Gastric Bezoar That Was Removed by Endoscopic Combination Therapy with an Argon Plasma and Coca-Cola Injection
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Kim, Jung-Hoon
(Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine)
Bae, Won-Ki (Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) Lee, Hyoung-Don (Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) Park, Jung-Bok (Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) Kim, Nam-Hoon (Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) Kim, Kyung-Ah (Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) Lee, June-Sung (Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) Moon, Young-Soo (Department of Internal Medicine, Ilsan Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine) |
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