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Serum salivary amylase and the irritable bowel syndrome

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Serum salivary amylase is not a marker for the irritable bowel syndrome.

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  1. Department of Medicine and Gastroenterology, The Charitable Infirmary, Jervis Street, Dublin 1, Ireland

    J. Kirby, M. D. O’Donnell, K. F. McGeaney & J. F. Fielding

  2. Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Woodview, Dublin 4

    J. Kirby, M. D. O’Donnell, K. F. McGeaney & J. F. Fielding

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Kirby, J., O’Donnell, M.D., McGeaney, K.F. et al. Serum salivary amylase and the irritable bowel syndrome. I.J.M.S. 152, 394–395 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02960753

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