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Pica as a Feature of Autism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

H. G. Kinnell*
Affiliation:
Botleys Park Hospital, Guildford Road, Chertsey, Surrey

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Copyright © 1985 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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