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D Stojanović1, A Frković, H Filiplić-Stojanović

  • 1Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Public Health, Clinical Hospital Centre, Rijeka Univesity Medical School, Croatia. drazen.stojanovic@ri.tel.hr

Journal of Medical Engineering & Technology
|January 10, 2002
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