Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 472-475 , November 2010

Polysplenia syndrome accompanied with situs inversus totalis and annular pancreas in an elderly patient

Received 30 September 2009 ,Accepted 20 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.11.011

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 6 , Pages 472-475 , November 2010

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