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Food impaction in nutcracker esophagus

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Breumelhof, R., Van Wijk, H.J., Van Es, C.D. et al. Food impaction in nutcracker esophagus. Digest Dis Sci 35, 1167–1171 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537591

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