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Research Article| Volume 1, ISSUE 3, P581-583, September 1981

Ethanol

  • James M. Byers III
    Correspondence
    Corresponding author: Department of Pathology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona 85724
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    Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Arizona; Chief, Toxicology Section, University Hospital Clinical Laboratories, Tucson, Arizona
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      Blood ethanol measurements can be valuable diagnostic or therapeutic aids, especially in the treatment of patients with head trauma or coma or in the diagnosis of possible alcoholism or acute alcoholic intoxication.
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