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. 1990 Feb;152(2):190–192.

Zinc abuse--an unsuspected cause of sideroblastic anemia.

W B Forman 1, D Sheehan 1, S Cappelli 1, B Coffman 1
PMCID: PMC1002314  PMID: 2400417

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