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Clinical problems of a short bowel and their treatment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Jeremy M. D. Nightingale*
Affiliation:
Department of Gastroenterology, St Mark's Hospital, City Road, London EC1V 2PS
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Type
The Sir David Cuthbertson Medal Lecture
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1994

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