Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 318-319 , March 1997

The use of DNA fingerprinting to clarify uncertainties about an endoscopic biopsy specimen that unexpectedly revealed gastric cancer

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 From the Departments of Medicine, Pathology, and Surgery, Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.

☆☆ Reprint requests: David Fleischer, MD, GI Division, Room M2122, Georgetown University Hospital, 3800 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington, DC 20007.

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Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
Volume 45, Issue 3 , Pages 318-319 , March 1997