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These reviews were published in the Journal of Clinical Pathology and a supporting series of cases in the British Medical Journal. See Authors and acknowledgments.
References
All references with links to [Free Full-text] are freely available online to users in England and Wales. This includes the full text of Department of Health papers and Cochrane Library reviews.
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