Stupor and flaccid paralysis in a patient with end-stage renal failure.

Nephrol Dial Transplant

Départment of Nephrology, Meir Hospital, Sapir Medical Center, Kfar-Saba, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Published: January 2002

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