Bacillary Angiomatosis in Patients With Cancer: A Pediatric Case Report and a Review of the Literature.
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Anita K. McElroy, Joseph A. Hilinski, Carlos R. Abramowsky, Ronald Jaffe, Sunita I. Park, Bahig M. Shehata, and ToddM. Cooper Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia;, and Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
دوره 2 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013