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Sudden death in phenothiazine therapy

A clinicopathologic study of 12 cases

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From the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Graduate Division; the Philadelphia Psychiatric Center; and the Norristown State Hospital, this paper was submitted to theQuarterly on January 9, 1969.

The research was supported, in part, by Grant NB-05028-02 from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness of the United States Public Health Service.

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Moore, M.T., Book, M.H. Sudden death in phenothiazine therapy. Psych Quar 44, 389–402 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01562983

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