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Celiac disease in Saudi children

Evaluation of clinical features and diagnosis

Anjum Saeed, Asaad Assiri, Hebah Assiri, Anhar Ullah and Mohsin Rashid
Saudi Medical Journal August 2017, 38 (9) 895-899; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.9.20808
Anjum Saeed
From the Department of Pediatrics (Saeed, Assiri A, Assiri H), Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (Ullah), King Saud University Medical City, Prince Abdullah Bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Saeed, Assiri A), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and from the Department of Pediatrics (Rashid), Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Asaad Assiri
From the Department of Pediatrics (Saeed, Assiri A, Assiri H), Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (Ullah), King Saud University Medical City, Prince Abdullah Bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Saeed, Assiri A), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and from the Department of Pediatrics (Rashid), Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Hebah Assiri
From the Department of Pediatrics (Saeed, Assiri A, Assiri H), Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (Ullah), King Saud University Medical City, Prince Abdullah Bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Saeed, Assiri A), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and from the Department of Pediatrics (Rashid), Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Anhar Ullah
From the Department of Pediatrics (Saeed, Assiri A, Assiri H), Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (Ullah), King Saud University Medical City, Prince Abdullah Bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Saeed, Assiri A), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and from the Department of Pediatrics (Rashid), Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Mohsin Rashid
From the Department of Pediatrics (Saeed, Assiri A, Assiri H), Department of Cardiovascular Sciences (Ullah), King Saud University Medical City, Prince Abdullah Bin Khalid Celiac Disease Research Chair (Saeed, Assiri A), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and from the Department of Pediatrics (Rashid), Division of Gastroenterology & Nutrition, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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