Pica: Are You Hungry for the Facts?

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 207-209

  Federman, Daniel G ^a   Kirsner, Robert S ^b   Liang Federman, Grace S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; PICA; REVIEW;

ADULT; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; PICA;

EID: 0031114485     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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