Memantine effective for dementia symptoms in elderly
- Book ID
- 120845276
- Publisher
- Adis International Limited (now part of Wolters Kluwer Health)
- Year
- 2008
- Weight
- 133 KB
- Volume
- &NA;
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1173-8324
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