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Kawasaki disease: clinical overview

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Welton M. Gersony
Welton M. Gersony*
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Cardiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and Babies Hospital, New York
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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
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The World Forum for Pediatric Cardiology Symposium on Kawasaki Disease
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 192 - 195
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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