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Response to the Letter to the Editor “Bariatric Surgery and the Assessment of Copper and Zinc Nutriture” by Leslie M. Klevay

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  1. Interdisciplinary Obesity Center, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, 9400, Rorschach, Switzerland

    Barbara Ernst, Martin Thurnheer & Bernd Schultes

  2. Internal Medicine I, University of Luebeck, Luebeck, Germany

    Sebastion M. Schmid

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Ernst, B., Thurnheer, M., Schmid, S.M. et al. Response to the Letter to the Editor “Bariatric Surgery and the Assessment of Copper and Zinc Nutriture” by Leslie M. Klevay. OBES SURG 20, 674–675 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-010-0090-6

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