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    Henryk Dancygier (Professor of Medicine)

  2. Department of Medicine, Division of Liver Diseases, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA

    Henryk Dancygier (Professor of Medicine)

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Dancygier, H. (2010). Helminthic Infections. In: Clinical Hepatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04519-6_13

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