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Kawasaki disease: clinical overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Welton M. Gersony*
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and Babies Hospital, New York
*
Dr. Welton Gersony, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, Babies Hospital, 3959 Broadway, Room 102 So., New York, New York 10032, USA

Abstract

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Type
The World Forum for Pediatric Cardiology Symposium on Kawasaki Disease
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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