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Case Reports in Gastrointestinal Medicine
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 896523, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/896523
Case Report

Acute Eosinophilic Ascites in a Middle-Aged Man

Fadi Bleibel,1 Keith Fragoza,1 and Garrey T. Faller2

1Department of Internal Medicine, Steward Carney Hospital, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02124, USA
2Department of Pathology, Steward Carney Hospital, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02124, USA

Received 1 January 2012; Accepted 20 February 2012

Academic Editors: T. Hirata, Y.-H. Hsieh, S. Kikuchi, S. Nomura, W. S. Selby, and S. Tanaka

Copyright © 2012 Fadi Bleibel et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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