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Medical treatment of acute episodes of rheumatic fever

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Rachel Snitcowsky
Rachel Snitcowsky*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clinicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo
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Dr. Rachel Snitcowsky, Instituto do Coração, Divisao de Clinicas, Avenida Dr. Eneas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44,05403 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
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Keywords

Streptococcal infectionacute rheumatic fevermedical treatmentgallium-67 imaging
Type
World Forum for Pediatric Cardiology Symposium on Rheumatic Fever
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 240 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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