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Research Article

Traumatic brain injury in veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Communication disorders stratified by severity of brain injury

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Pages 1623-1630 | Received 27 Mar 2013, Accepted 07 Aug 2013, Published online: 16 Oct 2013

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