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Images in clinical medicine. Urine fluorescence in ethylene glycol poisoning
Christopher M McStay1, Peter E Gordon
1New York University-Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY 10016, USA. mcstac01@med.nyu.edu
The New England Journal of Medicine
|February 9, 2007
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