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Obsessive–compulsive symptoms and clozapine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Sedar M. Dursun
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Leicester University, Leicester
Michael A. Reveley
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, Leicester University, Leicester
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Abstract

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994 

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