Virtual Clinical Nutrition University: Nutrition in the elderly-artificial nutrition
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عنوان ژورنال: e-SPEN, the European e-Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1751-4991
DOI: 10.1016/j.eclnm.2008.11.004