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A Case of MELAS Presenting as Anorexia Nervosa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Aileen Kim ,
Jeremy Francis  and
Gail H. Manos
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Letter to the Editor
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CNS Spectrums , Volume 14 , Issue 10 , October 2009 , pp. 531 - 534
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