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Diagnostic Procedures: Function Tests and Postmortem Protocol

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Touati, G., Huber, J., Saudubray, JM. (2006). Diagnostic Procedures: Function Tests and Postmortem Protocol. In: Fernandes, J., Saudubray, JM., van den Berghe, G., Walter, J.H. (eds) Inborn Metabolic Diseases. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28785-8_3

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