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Research Article

Hypokalemic Muscular Paralysis Causing Acute Respiratory Failure Due to Rhabdomyolysis with Renal Tubular Acidosis in a Chronic Glue Sniffer

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Pages 679-681 | Published online: 20 Nov 2000

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