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. 1998 Mar;4(1):54–57. doi: 10.1136/ip.4.1.54

Case series and exposure series: the role of studies without controls in providing information about the etiology of injury or disease

P Cummings 1, N Weiss 1
PMCID: PMC1730307  PMID: 9595334

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