Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 7 , Pages 485-489 , July 2010

The diagnostic value of the duodenal biopsy: A clinico-pathologic analysis of 28,000 patients

  • Susanne W. Carmack

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Caris Diagnostics, Irving, TX 75063, United States
    • Department of Pathology, Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75216, United States
    • ,
  • Robert M. Genta

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastrointestinal Pathology, Caris Diagnostics, Irving, TX 75063, United States
    • Department of Pathology, Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75216, United States
    • Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs North Texas Health Care System, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75216, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Caris Diagnostics, 8400 Esters Boulevard, Suite 190, Irving, TX 75063, United States. Tel.: +1 214 596 7440; fax: +1 214 596 2297.

Received 8 October 2009 ,Accepted 24 November 2009.

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PII: S1590-8658(09)00445-9

doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2009.11.010

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 7 , Pages 485-489 , July 2010

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