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CASE REPORT: A Case of Coexisting Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: A New Overlap of Autoimmune Liver Diseases

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    Kelly W. Burak & Mark G. Swain

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Burak, K.W., Urbanski, S.J. & Swain, M.G. CASE REPORT: A Case of Coexisting Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: A New Overlap of Autoimmune Liver Diseases. Dig Dis Sci 46, 2043–2047 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1010620122567

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