Levodopa dosage determines adherence to long-acting dopamine agonists in Parkinson's disease
✍ Scribed by Diego Santos-García; María Prieto-Formoso; Raúl de la Fuente-Fernández
- Book ID
- 119304474
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Volume
- 318
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-510X
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