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Quantitation of the degree of osteoporosis by measure of total-body calcium employing neutron activation

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    S. H. Cohn, I. Zanzi, A. Vaswani, S. Wallach, J. Aloia & K. J. Ellis

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Cohn, S.H., Zanzi, I., Vaswani, A. et al. Quantitation of the degree of osteoporosis by measure of total-body calcium employing neutron activation. Calc. Tis Res. 21 (Suppl 1), 375–379 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02546480

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