Measuring a toddler's mouthful: Toxicologic considerations

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 142, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 729-730

  Ratnapalan, Savithiri ^a   Potylitsina, Yelena ^a   Tan, Li Houng ^a   Roifman, Maian ^a   Koren, Gideon ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPLE JUICE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHILDHOOD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOUTH; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SWALLOWING; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0037794514     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2003.216     Document Type: Article

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