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[A method of objective estimation of anal and bulbocavernosus reflexes in children]

P P Salov, N S Zakharova

    Zhurnal Nevropatologii I Psikhiatrii Imeni S.S. Korsakova (Moscow, Russia : 1952)
    |January 1, 1991
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