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. 1991 May;67(787):423–445. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.67.787.423

Medicine in the elderly.

P Diggory 1, A Homer 1, J Liddle 1, C F Pratt 1, S Samadian 1, R Tozer 1, C Weinstein 1
PMCID: PMC2398838  PMID: 1852662

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