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. 1996 Jun 29;312(7047):1652–1653. doi: 10.1136/bmj.312.7047.1652

High ambient temperature: a spurious cause of hypokalaemia.

P W Masters ¹, N Lawson ¹, C B Marenah ¹, L J Maile ¹

PMCID: PMC2351396 PMID: 8664721

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