Leucoencephalopathy after inhaling "heroin" pyrolysate.

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• Publication year

  1982

• Venue

  The Lancet

• Publication date

  1982-12-04

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(82)90101-5PMID 6128545
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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