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Hyperkalemic periodic paralysis and paramyotonia congenita – A novel sodium channel mutation –

✍ Scribed by Shiho Okuda; Fumio Kanda; Keisuke Nishimoto; Ryogen Sasaki; Kazuo Chihara


Book ID
106096197
Publisher
Springer
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
493 KB
Volume
248
Category
Article
ISSN
0340-5354

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