Acute Poisoning in the Elderly: An Increasingly Recognized But Still Overlooked Problem
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Chinese Medical Association
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1726-4901
DOI: 10.1016/s1726-4901(10)70037-x