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. 1996 Jan;164(1):71–75.

Lethal ingestion of Chinese herbal tea containing ch'an su.

R J Ko 1, M S Greenwald 1, S M Loscutoff 1, A M Au 1, B R Appel 1, R A Kreutzer 1, W F Haddon 1, T Y Jackson 1, F O Boo 1, G Presicek 1
PMCID: PMC1303306  PMID: 8779214

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