Surgery of the OesophagusThomas Patrick Joseph Hennessy, Alfred Cuschieri |
Contents
List of contributors xi | 1 |
Diagnostic techniques and tests of oesophageal function | 17 |
Congenital anomalies of the oesophagus | 56 |
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