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Giampiero Porzio1, Federica Aielli, Filomena Narducci

  • 1Supportive Care and Rehabilitation Unit, Medical Oncology Department, University of L'Aquila, Italy. porzio1@interfree.it

The New Zealand Medical Journal
|October 29, 2003
PubMed
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