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. 1993 Aug 28;307(6903):517–518. doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6903.517

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after pituitary gonadotrophins.

D L Healy, J Evans
PMCID: PMC1678637  PMID: 8400968

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