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Toxic alcohol diagnosis and management: an emergency medicine review—comment

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  1. Medical Toxicology and Drug Abuse Research Center (MTDRC), Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran

    Samaneh Nakhaee, Kobra Naseri & Omid Mehrpour

  2. Rocky Mountain Poison and Drug Center, Denver, CO, USA

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Nakhaee, S., Naseri, K. & Mehrpour, O. Toxic alcohol diagnosis and management: an emergency medicine review—comment. Intern Emerg Med 14, 1183–1184 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-018-02012-0

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