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Undernutrition in Pediatric Malignancy

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  1. Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Tata Medical Centre, 14 Major Arterial Road (MAR) (EW), Rajarhat, Kolkata, 700156, India

    Anirban Das, Manash Gogoi, Shekhar Krishnan & Arpita Bhattacharyya

  2. Department of Clinical Nutrition, Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata, India

    Reshma Ray & Tiash Sinha

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Das, A., Ray, R., Sinha, T. et al. Undernutrition in Pediatric Malignancy. Indian J Pediatr 84, 875–876 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-017-2399-9

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