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R López Rodríguez1, M Rodríguez Framil, A Hermida Ameijeiras

  • 1Servicios de Medicina Interna, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario, Departamento de Medicina, 15706 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña.

Anales De Medicina Interna (Madrid, Spain : 1984)
|June 27, 2006
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