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Clinical study| Volume 27, ISSUE 3, P443-453, September 01, 1959

D-xylose and its use in the diagnosis of malabsorptive states

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(59)90010-5
D-xylose and its use in the diagnosis of malabsorptive states
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