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Navel History

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 Parwathi “Uma” Paniker, MD, Section Editor

PII: S0002-9343(06)00004-0

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2005.12.023

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 119, Issue 3 , Pages 241-243 , March 2006