Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2 , Pages 116-122 , March 2000

Irritable bowel syndrome in a psychiatric patient population

  • Carol S. North

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Carol S. North, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, 4940 Children's Place, St Louis, MO 63110.
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  • David H. Alpers

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