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Letter to Editor

Fatal Cardiac and Renal Failure Due to Ecbalium Elaterium (Squirting Cucumber)

Pavlos Vlachos Department of Pediatrics, Poison Information Center, Athens, Greece
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Nristidis N. Kanitsakis Department of Internal, Medicine General Hospital Rethemnon, Crete
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Nick Kokonas Department of Internal, Medicine General Hospital Rethemnon, Crete
Pages 737-738 | Published online: 25 Sep 2008

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