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Br Med J. 1966 June 25; 1(5503): 1581–1582.
PMCID: PMC1844772
Hypokalaemia, Flaccid Quadruparesis, and Myoglobinuria with Carbenoxolone (Biogastrone)
S. D. Mohamed, R. S. Chapman, and J. Crooks
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