Covered self-expanding metal stents for transmural drainage of infected pancreatic fluid collections: don't sell the skin till you have caught the bear or at least spotted the animal

Endoscopy 2012; 44(11): 1062-1063
DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1310153

Letters to the editor

W. Laleman

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S. Van der Merwe

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