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  1. Chair, Department of Medicine II, Klinikum Offenbach, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main, Starkenburgring 66, Offenbach, 63069, Germany

    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). Amyloidosis. In: Clinical Hepatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04519-6_33

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