Inexplicable Infantile Cataracts and Partial Maternal Galactose Disorder

Overview

Journal Arch Dis Child

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 1986 May 1

PMID 3013103

Citations 2

Authors

M Brivet

V Abadie

T Soni

G Cheron

J L Dufier

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