Sublingual therapy for cobalamin deficiency as an alternative to oral and parenteral cobalamin supplementation

Lancet

Volumn 354, Issue 9180, 1999, Pages 740-741

  Delpre, Georges ^a,b   Stark, Pinhas ^a,b   Niv, Yaron ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COBALAMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBLINGUAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

EID: 0033612907     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(99)02479-4     Document Type: Article

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