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Physiology of the Gallbladder and the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts

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Beuers, U. (2010). Physiology of the Gallbladder and the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts. In: Clinical Hepatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04519-6_53

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