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Roberto Regis Ribeiro1, Keila Donassolo Santos Ribeiro, Gil Guerra-Júnior

  • 1Center of Investigation in Pediatrics, Department ofPediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil.

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism : JPEM
|October 23, 2009
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