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Prevalence and prognostic implications of dysphagia in elderly patients with pneumonia

Mateu Cabre1, Mateu Serra-Prat, Elisabet Palomera

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital de Mataró, Barcelona, Spain. mcabre@csdm.cat

Age and Ageing
|June 30, 2009
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