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  Vol. 45 No. 5, May 1988 TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Acute paralysis from inhaled barium carbonate

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Department of Neurology, Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center.

A young chrome-plating worker suffered life-threatening hypokalemic paralysis when barium powder, used in cleaning the chrome tanks, blew back into his face.

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