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Images in medicine
Air in the portal space: where does it come from?
  1. Ramón Elizondo-Romo1,
  2. Jorge Adrián Nuñez-Zuno1,
  3. Iván Josué Jiménez-González1,
  4. Emiliano Montiel-Nuñez1,
  5. José Víctor Jiménez1,
  6. Diego Luis Carrillo-Pérez2,3
  1. 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
  2. 2 Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
  3. 3 Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
  1. Correspondence to Dr Diego Luis Carrillo-Pérez, Department of Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City 14080, Mexico; djiego51{at}gmail.com

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2018-135845

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