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BMJ. 1991 December 21; 303(6817): 1589–1591.
PMCID: PMC1676250
Vincent van Gogh's illness: acute intermittent porphyria?
L S Loftus and W N Arnold
University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine 64108.
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