The Evolution of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children: Five-Year Report of a Co-operative Clinical Trial of ACTH, Cortisone and Aspirin.

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  • David D. Rutstein
چکیده

Members of the Rheumatic Fever Working Party and United Kingdom participating centers: The late Sir James Spence (Chairman), Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle; Professor A. Bradford Hill, Honorary Director, Statistical Research Unit of the Medical Research Council (Vice-chairman, and Chairman following the death of Sir James Spence); Dr. E. G. L. Bywaters (Secretary), Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow; Dr. E. Ellis, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle; Professor Stanley Graham, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow; Professor R. S. Illingworth, The Children's Hospital, Sheffield; Dr. B. E. Schlesinger, Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London; Professor A. G. Watkins, Llandough Hospital, Cardiff. Members of the Principal Investigators Subcommittee and United States participating centers: Dr. David D. Rutstein (Chairman) Coordinating

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Canadian Medical Association journal

دوره 83 15  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1960