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Muscle cramps in chronic liver diseases and treatment with antispastic agent (eperisone hydrochloride)

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  1. The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 431-31, Shizuoka, Japan

    Yoshimasa Kobayashi MD, Tsunehisa Kawasaki MD & Teruya Yoshimi MD

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Inasa Red Cross Hospital, 431-22, Shizuoka, Japan

    Takeyuki Nakajima MD

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, Toshiba General Hospital, 140, Tokyo, Japan

    Koichi Kanai MD

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Kobayashi, Y., Kawasaki, T., Yoshimi, T. et al. Muscle cramps in chronic liver diseases and treatment with antispastic agent (eperisone hydrochloride). Digest Dis Sci 37, 1145–1146 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01300302

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