When to suspect lactose intolerance. Symptomatic, ethnic, and laboratory clues

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 109-123

  Srinivasan, Radhika ^a   Minocha, Anil ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIET THERAPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHNOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; LACTASE DEFICIENCY; LACTOSE INTOLERANCE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0031708730     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.1998.09.577     Document Type: Article

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