Iodine deficiency disorders among school children of Birbhum, West Bengal

Current Science

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 78-80

  Biswas, Akhil Bandhu ^a   Chakraborty, Indranil ^b   Das, Dilip Kumar ^a   Roy, Rabindra Nath ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sujishnu ^a   Chatterjee, Subhramoy ^b  

^a R G KAR MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b BURDWAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

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