Nutrition
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 129-132 , February 2011

Nutritional support in head injury

  • Angela Vizzini, R.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Dietetics, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
    • ,
  • Jaime Aranda-Michel, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and Liver Transplant, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: 904-956-3257; fax: 904-956-3359.

Received 3 November 2009 ,Accepted 3 May 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2010.05.004

Nutrition
Volume 27, Issue 2 , Pages 129-132 , February 2011

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