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Discrepancy between patient prognosis and degree of portal venous gas detected using ultrasound

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All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. This retrospective study was approved by the ethics committee of my institution. The requirement for informed consent was waived owing to the retrospective nature of this study.

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Hosokawa, T. Discrepancy between patient prognosis and degree of portal venous gas detected using ultrasound. J Med Ultrasonics 50, 267–268 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10396-023-01294-y

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