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ICD-10: A Neuropsychiatrist's Nightmare?

Five problems introduced with the term ‘organic’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Shôn Lewis
Shôn Lewis*
Affiliation:
Charing Cross & Westminster Medical School, St Dunstan's Road, London W6 8RP
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 164 , Issue 2 , February 1994 , pp. 157 - 158
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Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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