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Nerve Excitability Assessment in Chemotherapy-induced Neurotoxicity
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Published on: April 26, 2012

[Toxic polyneuropathy after sniffing contact glue thinner (author's transl)]

H Altenkirch, J Mager

    Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift (1946)
    |February 6, 1976
    PubMed

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