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How effective are oral hyoscine butylbromide and paracetamol for the relief of crampy abdominal pain?

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boxed-textMueller-Lissner S et al. (2006) Placebo- and paracetamol-controlled study on the efficacy and tolerability of hyoscine butylbromide in the treatment of patients with recurrent crampy abdominal pain. Aliment Pharmacol Ther 23: 1741–1748

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Mertz, H. How effective are oral hyoscine butylbromide and paracetamol for the relief of crampy abdominal pain?. Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol 4, 10–11 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpgasthep0688

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