Searching for Information on the Internet Using the UMLS and Medical World Search

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 4, Issue SUPPL., 1997, Pages 824-828

  Suarez, Humbert H ^a   Hao, Xiaolong ^a   Chang, Ifay F ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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