Total parenteral nutrition with glutamine dipeptide shortened hospital stays and improved immune status and nitrogen economy after major abdominal surgery

. 1999 Feb;44(2):155. doi: 10.1136/gut.44.2.155

PMCID: PMC1727383 PMID: 9895371

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