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Are miniature ultrasonic probes of clinical value for diagnosis and treatment of digestive tract diseases?

Nature Clinical Practice Gastroenterology & Hepatology volume 1, pages 74–75 (2004)Cite this article

boxed-textXu G-Q et al. (2004) Miniature ultrasonic probes for diagnosis and treatment of digestive tract diseases. World J Gastroenterol 10: 1948–1953

MUPs are easy to use, economical, well tolerated, safe and useful for the diagnosis and treatment of early gastrointestinal malignancies and possibly also for advanced gastrointestinal tumors and extraluminal processes

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