Assessment of body composition – methods and practical aspects
✍ Scribed by Karin Schindler; Bernhard Ludvik
- Publisher
- Springer Vienna
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 109 KB
- Volume
- 154
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0043-5341
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