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Brief Communication

Liver injury associated with the use of Fructus Psoraleae (Bol-gol-zhee or Bu-gu-zhi) and its related proprietary medicine

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Pages 683-685 | Received 09 Mar 2009, Accepted 21 May 2009, Published online: 30 Jul 2009

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