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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 285475, 6 pages
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Clinical Diagnostic Clues in Crohn's Disease: A 41-Year Experience

C. Quintana,1,2 L. Galleguillos,2 E. Benavides,1 J. C. Quintana,1 A. Zúñiga,1 I. Duarte,1 J. Klaassen,1 M. Kolbach,1 R. M. Soto,3 S. Iacobelli,1 M. Álvarez,1 and A. O'Brien1

1Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 8330024 Santiago, Chile
2Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de los Andes, 7620001 Santiago, Chile
3Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, 8380453 Santiago, Chile

Received 15 August 2012; Accepted 23 September 2012

Academic Editors: J. Chen, J. M. Kim, and K. Mansour

Copyright © 2012 C. Quintana 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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