Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 3-9 , February 2003

The embryology of the foregut

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☆ Address reprint requests to Dietrich Kluth, MD, PhD, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, D-20246 Hamburg, Germany.

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Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
Volume 12, Issue 1 , Pages 3-9 , February 2003

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