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New pathological aspects of rheumatic heart disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Raimunda Violante Campos Assis  and
Maria de Lourdes Higuchi
Raimunda Violante Campos Assis
Affiliation:
Heart Institute, Pathology Service, Faculty of Medicine, University of São PauloSão Paulo
Maria de Lourdes Higuchi*
Affiliation:
Heart Institute, Pathology Service, Faculty of Medicine, University of São PauloSão Paulo
*
Dr. Maria de Lourdes Higuchi Instituto do Coração, Hospital das Clinicas, Clinicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 8091, São Paulo, Brazil
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Keywords

Aschoff nodulesimmunologyregional differencesvalvar disease
Type
World Forum for Pediatric Cardiology Symposium on Rheumatic Fever
Information
Cardiology in the Young , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , July 1992 , pp. 216 - 221
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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