Tehran University Medical Journal (Apr 2010)

A report of multiple sclerosis patients treated by CinnoVex™ in Iran

  • Masood Etemadifar,
  • Mehrdokht Mazdeh,
  • Hamid Reza Torabi,
  • Majid Ghaffarpour,
  • Mojtaba Azimian,
  • Shiva Salami,
  • Sayyed Mohammad Amir Shahkarami

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 68, no. 1
pp. 30 – 36

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