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. 2024 May 12;196(18):E624.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.231550.

Pediatric sialorrhea (drooling)

Karan Gandhi  1 , Julie E Strychowsky  1 , Breanna A Chen  2
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Pediatric sialorrhea (drooling)

Karan Gandhi et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests:: Julie Strychowsky reports a Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Catalyst Grant at Western University and an Academic Medical Organization of Southwestern Ontario grant outside the submitted work. No other competing interests were declared.

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