Screening for Phenylketonuria

Adapted by William Feldman, MD, FRCPC, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, from the report prepared for the US Preventive Services Task Force by Robert Baldwin, MD and Modena E.H. Wilson, MD, MPH

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