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  1. Periampullary adenocarcinoma is a major clinical problem in high-risk patients including FAP population. A recent modification for visualizing the ampulla of Vater (AV) involves attaching a cap to the tip of t...

    Authors: Leonardo Correa Silva, Rondinelle Martins Arruda, Paula Fortuci Resende Botelho, Leonardo Nogueira Taveira, Kelly Menezio Giardina, Marco Antonio de Oliveira, Julia Dias, Cleyton Zanardo Oliveira, Gilberto Fava and Denise Peixoto Guimarães

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:214

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  2. Although endoscopic resection is safe and effective for gastric epithelial neoplasms, information is limited on its efficacy and safety in extremely elderly patients who have various comorbidities. Further, th...

    Authors: Sunmin Kim, Dong Hyun Kim, Seon-Young Park, Chang Hwan Park, Hyun Soo Kim, Sung Kyu Choi and Jong Sun Rew

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:213

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  3. To evaluate an innovative open necrosectomy strategy with continuous positive drainage and prophylactic diverting loop ileostomy for the management of late infected pancreatic necrosis (LIPN).

    Authors: Dong-Guang Niu, Wei-Qin Li, Qian Huang, Fan Yang, Wei-Liang Tian, Chen Li, Lian-An Ding, Hong-Chun Fang and Yun-Zhao Zhao

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:212

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  4. Real-world comparisons of biologic treatment outcomes for ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease (CD) patients are limited. We sought to evaluate the real-world effectiveness of vedolizumab (VDZ) and anti-...

    Authors: Ulf Helwig, Michael Mross, Stefan Schubert, Heinz Hartmann, Alina Brandes, Dara Stein, Christian Kempf, Jana Knop, Sarah Campbell-Hill and Robert Ehehalt

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:211

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  5. Animal models of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are important tools in preclinical research and drug discovery. Gubra-Amylin NASH (GAN) diet-induced obese (DIO) mice represent a model of fibrosing NASH. ...

    Authors: Henrik H. Hansen, Helene M. Ægidius, Denise Oró, Simon S. Evers, Sara Heebøll, Peter Lykke Eriksen, Karen Louise Thomsen, Anja Bengtsson, Sanne S. Veidal, Michel Feigh, Malte P. Suppli, Filip K. Knop, Henning Grønbæk, Diego Miranda, James L. Trevaskis, Niels Vrang…

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:210

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  6. Functional dyspepsia (FD), belching disorders (BD) and functional heartburn (FH) are the three most common upper functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID) in IBS patients. FD is known to exert deleterious e...

    Authors: Xin Yao, Yunsheng Yang, Shutian Zhang, Yu Shi, Qian Zhang and Yongjun Wang

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:209

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  7. Primary hyperoxaluria (PH) is an inherited disease lacking of hepatic oxalic acid metabolic enzymes which could lead to irreverisible renal damage. Currently, liver–kidney transplantation is a curative but hig...

    Authors: Jie Xiang, Zheng Chen, Fangshen Xu, Shengmin Mei, Zhiwei Li, Jie Zhou, Yinlei Dong, Yangjun Gu, Zhichao Huang and Zhenhua Hu

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:208

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  9. Recurrence risk is a major concern after endoscopic resection (ER) of gastric neoplasms. This study was to compare metachronous risk in patients with and without synchronous neoplasms after complete ER.

    Authors: Ga-Yeong Shin, Hye Jin Cho, Jae Myung Park, Chul-Hyun Lim, Yu Kyung Cho and Myung-Gyu Choi

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:206

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  10. Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), radiofrequency ablation (RFA), and iodine 125 seeds implantation are optional treatments for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The aim of this study is to compare the effi...

    Authors: Lei Chen, Xuefeng Kan, Tao Sun, Yanqiao Ren, Yanyan Cao, Liangliang Yan, Bin Liang, Bin Xiong and Chuansheng Zheng

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:205

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  11. Adult lactase non-persistence (LNP) is due to low lactase expression, resulting in lactose malabsorption (LM). LNP is a genetic trait, but is typically determined by LM markers including breath H2, blood glucose,...

    Authors: Aahana Shrestha, Matthew P. G. Barnett, Jo K. Perry, David Cameron-Smith and Amber M. Milan

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:204

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  12. Tacrolimus (TAC) is a powerful remission-inducing drug for refractory ulcerative colitis (UC). However, it is unclear whether mucosal healing (MH) influences relapse after completion of TAC.We investigated whe...

    Authors: Ayumi Ito, Syun Murasugi, Teppei Omori, Shinichi Nakamura and Katsutoshi Tokushige

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:203

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  13. Undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells (UC-OGC) is an extremely uncommon pancreatic neoplasm that comprises less than 1% of all exocrine pancreatic tumors. To date, cases and data from who...

    Authors: Guangjian Yang, Jiangxia Yin, Kai Ou, Qiang Du, Wenhao Ren, Yujing Jin, Liming Peng and Lin Yang

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:202

    Content type: Case report

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  14. Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Thus, it is beneficial to preoperatively identify patients at high risk of developing SSI. The primary ...

    Authors: Wikran Suragul, Narongsak Rungsakulkij, Watoo Vassanasiri, Pongsatorn Tangtawee, Paramin Muangkaew, Somkit Mingphruedhi and Suraida Aeesoa

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:201

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  15. To compare the outcomes of modified endoscopic mucosal resection (m-EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for rectal neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) and evaluate the value of endoscopic morphology class...

    Authors: Xiang-Yao Wang, Ning-Li Chai, En-Qiang Linghu, Shao-Tian Qiu, Long-Song Li, Jia-Le Zou, Jing-Yuan Xiang and Xing-Xing Li

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:200

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  16. Bariatric surgery is an effective treatment for severe obesity. It also ameliorates diabetes independently of weight loss through mechanisms that are not fully understood. In this study, we investigated the le...

    Authors: Khalid Al-Regaiey, Suad Alshubrami, Ibrahim Al-Beeshi, Torki Alnasser, Abdulnasser Alwabel, Hassan Al-Beladi, Omar Al-Tujjar, Abdulrahman Alnasser, Assim A. Alfadda and Muhammad Iqbal

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:199

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  17. To investigate the effect of albumin infusion on cirrhotic patients admitted for acute gastrointestinal bleeding.

    Authors: Zhu Wang, Ya-Wen Xie, Qing Lu, Hai-Lin Yan, Xin-Bin Liu, Yi Long, Xian Zhang and Jin-Lin Yang

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:198

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  18. Whipple’s disease is a rare systemic disease caused by a gram-positive bacillus called Tropheryma whipplei. First described in 1907 as an intestinal lipodystrophy with histological finding of vacuoles in the m...

    Authors: Margarita Rey R., Luis Alejandro Orozco, Katherine Marrugo, Rocio López, Erika D. Pérez-Riveros, José De la Hoz-Valle and Fernando Sierra-Arango

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:197

    Content type: Case report

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  19. Placement of nasogastric (NG) tubes is a common procedure for patients especially in intensive care units (ICUs). Thus, it is important to determine the correct placement of the tube to prevent misplacement in...

    Authors: Elahe Heidarzadi, Rostam Jalali, Behzad Hemmatpoor and Nader Salari

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:196

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  20. En-bloc resection of large, flat dysplastic mucosal lesions of the luminal GI tract can be challenging. In order to improve the efficacy of resection for lesions ≥2 cm and to optimize R0 resection rates of les...

    Authors: A. Sportes, Jung CFM, M. A. Gromski, P. Koehler, A. Seif Amir Hosseini, P. Kauffmann, V. Ellenrieder and E. Wedi

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:195

    Content type: Technical advance

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  21. Selective deep biliary cannulation is the first and the most important step before further biliary therapy. Transpancreatic sphincterotomy (TPS), and needle knife fistulotomy (NKF) were commonly used in patien...

    Authors: Kai-Shun Liang, Chieh-Chang Chen, Wei-Chih Liao, Yu-Ting Kuo, Liang-Wei Tseng, Wen-Tsung He and Hsiu-Po Wang

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:194

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  22. Recently, a new international bleeding score was developed to predict 30-day hospital mortality in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB). However, the efficacy of this newly developed scoring sy...

    Authors: Min Seong Kim, Hee Seok Moon, In Sun Kwon, Jae Ho Park, Ju Seok Kim, Sun Hyung Kang, Jae Kyu Sung, Eaum Seok Lee, Seok Hyun Kim, Byung Seok Lee and Hyun Yong Jeong

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:193

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  23. Studies have suggested that patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have an increased risk of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, the available data on this association are inconsistent. This meta-analy...

    Authors: Yi Chen, Lang Chen, Changsheng Xing, Guangtong Deng, Furong Zeng, Tingting Xie, Lei Gu and Huixiang Yang

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:192

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  24. Constipation is often self-managed by patients and guidelines are available to aid healthcare professionals in the counseling of patients for self-management. Therefore, we have explored the knowledge and atti...

    Authors: Marion Eberlin, Sabine Landes, Doerthe Biber-Feiter and Martin C. Michel

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:191

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  25. Non Helicobacter pylori gastric Helicobacters (NHPGHs) are associated with a range of upper gastrointestinal symptoms, histologic and endoscopic findings. For the first time in Iran, we performed a cross-sectiona...

    Authors: Shakiba Shafaie, Hami Kaboosi and Fatemeh Peyravii Ghadikolaii

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:190

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  26. Endoscopic biliary stenting by endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is the most common form of palliation for malignant hilar obstruction. However, ERCP in such cases is associated with a risk...

    Authors: Wen-hui Zhang, Peng-peng Ding, Lei Liu, Yan-ling Wang, Wen-hui Lai, Jing-jing Han, Jun Han and Han-wei Li

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:189

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  27. Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a clinic syndrome with substantial high short-term mortality. It is very important to stratify patients according to prognosis to decide management strategy. This study...

    Authors: Cuicui Xiao, Jiao Gong, Shuguang Zhu, Zhiwei Zhang, Sujuan Xi, Yutian Chong, Yusheng Jie and Qi Zhang

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:188

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  28. Gut microbiota alterations including small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) might play a role in pathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Rifaximin could effectively and safely improve IBS symptom...

    Authors: Xiaojun Zhuang, Zhenyi Tian, Mei Luo and Lishou Xiong

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:187

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  29. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a key turning point during the progression of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Recent studies have shown that serum miRNA tests may be effective in the diagnosis...

    Authors: Shengliang Xin, Qiao Zhan, Xiaofan Chen, Jinghang Xu and Yanyan Yu

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:186

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  30. The prevalence of Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is increasing, a severe complication of EoE is spontaneous perforation of the oesophagus. It is of great importance to be aware of this risk and handle this sev...

    Authors: Helen Larsson and Stephen Attwood

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:185

    Content type: Case report

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  31. Biliary decompression can reduce symptoms and improve quality of life in patients with malignant biliary obstruction. Endoscopically placed stents have become the standard of care for biliary drainage with the...

    Authors: Christopher Lawrence, Jose Nieto, Willis G. Parsons, André Roy, Nalini M. Guda, Stephen E. Steinberg, Muhammad K. Hasan, Juan Carlos Bucobo, Satish Nagula, Nicholas D. Dey and Jonathan M. Buscaglia

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:184

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  32. Intravenous iron replacement is recommended for iron-deficient patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), but may be associated with hypophosphataemia, predisposing to osteomalacia and fractures. This stu...

    Authors: Wendy Fang, Rachel Kenny, Qurat-ul-Ain Rizvi, Lawrence P. McMahon and Mayur Garg

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:183

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  33. Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare congenital disease characterized by multifocal venous malformations. It remains a considerable challenge in treating the gastrointestinal (GI) venous malformat...

    Authors: Yuemei Xu, Yingjie Wu, Zhenzhen Dai, Feizhen Xia and Feng Xu

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:182

    Content type: Case report

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  34. Cyanoacrylate alone or in combination with other interventions, can be used to achieve variable rates of success in preventing rebleeding. Our study aims to assess the pooled risk of gastric and esophageal var...

    Authors: Zixuan Hu, Decai Zhang, Joel Swai, Tao Liu and Shaojun Liu

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:181

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  37. Small bowel (SB) bleeding accounts for 5% of all gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding cases and 80% of obscure GI bleeding cases. Although angioectasia is the common etiology of SB bleeding, nonsteroidal anti-inflam...

    Authors: Doo-Ho Lim, Kyoungwon Jung, Seung Bum Lee, In Kyu Park, Hee Jeong Cha, Jae Ho Park, Byung Gyu Kim, Seok Won Jung, In Du Jeong, Jae Hyun Kim, Sung Eun Kim, Won Moon, Moo In Park and Seun Ja Park

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:178

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  38. Indications and diagnostic yield of small-bowel video capsule endoscopy (SB-VCE) are communicated in recent clinical academic guidelines. However, guidelines are based mainly on relatively few, small, selectio...

    Authors: André Artan Kharazmi, Saeid Aslani, Malene Fey Kristiansen, Eva Efsen Dahl and Mark Berner-Hansen

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:177

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  39. Infection of Echinococcus multilocularis causes in humans the alveolar echinococcosis. Although the infection has world-wide distribution it is rarely detected. Diagnosis of alveococcosis is difficult because of ...

    Authors: Ł. Pielok, M. Karczewski, W. Cierach, P. Zmora, E. Lenartowicz and J. Stefaniak

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:176

    Content type: Case report

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  40. The prevalence of Barrett’s esophageal adenocarcinoma (BEA) is increasing in Japan. Accurate assessment of lymphovascular invasion (LVI) after endoscopic resection or surgery is essential in evaluating treatme...

    Authors: Isao Hosono, Ryoji Miyahara, Kazuhiro Furukawa, Kohei Funasaka, Tsunaki Sawada, Keiko Maeda, Takeshi Yamamura, Takuya Ishikawa, Eizaburo Ohno, Masanao Nakamura, Hiroki Kawashima, Takio Yokoi, Tetsuya Tsukamoto, Yoshiki Hirooka and Mitsuhiro Fujishiro

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:175

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  41. Currently, side-by-side (SBS) and stent-in-stent (SIS) are the two main techniques for stent deployment to treat hilar biliary obstructions. Previous studies comparing these two techniques are very limited, an...

    Authors: Wei-Zhong Zhou, Sheng Liu, Zheng-Qiang Yang, Yu-Tao Xian, Hong-dou Xu, Jun-zheng Wu and Hai-Bin Shi

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:174

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  42. Abdominal pain in adults represents a wide range of illnesses, often warranting immediate intervention. This study is to fill the gap in the knowledge about incidence, presentation, causes and mortality from a...

    Authors: Kilalo M. Mjema, Hendry R. Sawe, Irene Kulola, Amour S. Mohamed, Erasto Sylvanus, Juma A. Mfinanga and Ellen J. Weber

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:173

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  43. Gallbladder carcinogenesis, frequently occurredin chronic cholecystitis patients, requires radical resection. We herein describe a hemorrhagic cholecystitis case that failed to be differentiated from gallbladd...

    Authors: Xin Zhang, Chunjun Zhang, Haifeng Huang, Junsen Wang, Yun Zhang and Qida Hu

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:172

    Content type: Case report

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  44. Alternative splicing (AS) is an important mechanism of regulating eukaryotic gene expression. Understanding the most common AS events in colorectal cancer (CRC) will help developing diagnostic, prognostic or t...

    Authors: Haifeng Lian, Aili Wang, Yuanyuan Shen, Qian Wang, Zhenru Zhou, Ranran Zhang, Kun Li, Chengxia Liu and Hongtao Jia

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:171

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  45. Colitis is generally considered a risk factor for colon neoplasia. However, not all types of colitis seem to have equal neoplastic transformation potential.

    Authors: Hassan Ashktorab, Hassan Brim, Sally Hassan, Mehdi Nouraie, Agazi Gebreselassie, Adeyinka O. Laiyemo, Angesom Kibreab, Farshad Aduli, Giovanni Latella, Steven R. Brant, Zaki Sherif and Aida Habtezion

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:170

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  46. Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) often involves the liver, and belongs to abnormal blood vessel disease. The etiology of Budd–Chiari syndrome (BCS) is not clear, but congenital vascular dysplasia is...

    Authors: Bai-Guo Xu, Jing Liang, Ke-Feng Jia and Tao Han

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:169

    Content type: Case report

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  47. Diagnosing constipation remains difficult and its treatment continues to be ineffective. The reason may be that the symptom patterns of constipation differ in different demographic groups. We aimed to determin...

    Authors: Sanne J. Verkuijl, Rob J. Meinds, Monika Trzpis and Paul M. A. Broens

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:168

    Content type: Research article

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  48. Juvenile polyposis syndrome (JPS) is a rare disorder characterized by the presence of multiple juvenile polyps in the gastrointestinal tract, and germline mutations in SMAD4 or BMPR1A. Due to its rarity and co...

    Authors: Xian Hua Gao, Juan Li, Zi Ye Zhao, Xiao Dong Xu, Yi Qi Du, Hong Li Yan, Lian Jie Liu, Chen Guang Bai and Wei Zhang

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:167

    Content type: Case report

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  49. A single-centre cohort study was performed to identify the independent factors associated with the overall survival (OS) of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treated with transarterial chemoembolization ...

    Authors: María Pipa-Muñiz, Susana Sanmartino, Alicia Mesa, Carmen Álvarez-Navascués, Maria-Luisa González-Diéguez, Valle Cadahía, José-Eduardo Rodríguez, Florentino Vega, Manuel Rodríguez, Serafin-Marcos Costilla-García and María Varela

    Citation: BMC Gastroenterology 2020 20:166

    Content type: Research article

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