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. 1983 Oct-Dec;25(4):251–259.

DEPRESSION AND SUICIDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE AGED

A Venkoba Rao 1,, T Madhavan 2
PMCID: PMC3012296  PMID: 21847300

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