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Comparison of plasma, serum, and whole blood ethanol concentrations

C L Winek1, M Carfagna

  • 1Allegheny County Department of Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219.

Journal of Analytical Toxicology
|November 1, 1987
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