Acute respiratory failure caused by phenytoin overdose
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Copyright © 2013 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. pISSN 1226-3303 eISSN 2005-6648 http://www.kjim.org Departments of Internal Medicine, Neuropsychiatry, and Neurology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Korea Acute respiratory failure caused by phenytoin overdose
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