Cholescintigraphy protocols for the Chronic Acalculous Symptomatic Hyperkinetic Gallbladder: Fantasies, fallacies, and unsolved mysteries!

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Isaac Samuel, MD, FRCS, FACS

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SAMUEL, Isaac. Cholescintigraphy protocols for the Chronic Acalculous Symptomatic Hyperkinetic Gallbladder: Fantasies, fallacies, and unsolved mysteries!. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 13, n. 2, mar. 2025. ISSN 2375-1924. Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/6401>. Date accessed: 02 may 2025. doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v13i2.6401.
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