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Lithium Therapy and the Risk for Leukemia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

John Lyskowski  and
Henry A. Nasrallah
John Lyskowski
Affiliation:
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A.
Henry A. Nasrallah
Affiliation:
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Iowa City, Iowa, U.S.A.
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Information
The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 3 , September 1981 , pp. 256
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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