Selection of Controls in Database Case-Control Studies: Glucocorticoids and the Risk of Glaucoma
✍ Scribed by Edeltraut Garbe; Jean-François Boivin; Jacques LeLorier; Samy Suissa
- Book ID
- 117597876
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 188 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-4356
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