Pharmacological treatment of chronic constipation: a literature review
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*Corresponding author: Masoumeh Salari. Department of Internal Medicine, Ghaem Hospital, School of Medicine,Mashhad University of Medical Science, Mashhad, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 09155050927 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Pharmacological treatment of chronic constipation: a literature review
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