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. 2003 May;88(5):399–402. doi: 10.1136/adc.88.5.399

Restrained rehabilitation: an approach to children and adolescents with unexplained signs and symptoms

P Calvert 1, J Jureidini 1
PMCID: PMC1719580  PMID: 12716709

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Graph showing Jane's course of recovery.

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