"Babe" Ruth's illness and its impact on medical history

Laryngoscope

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 1-2

  Bikhazi, Nadim B ^a,b   Kramer, Alan M ^a   Spiegel, Jeffrey H ^a   Singer, Mark I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PTEROPTERIN; PTEROPTIN;

ARTICLE; BASEBALL; HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PUBLIC FIGURE; UNITED STATES;

BASEBALL; FAMOUS PERSONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PTEROYLPOLYGLUTAMIC ACIDS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032615938     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199901000-00001     Document Type: Article

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