Incomplete Kawasaki disease in Egypt
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Received: 21 July 2017 Accepted: 19 September 2017 c © 2017 The Author(s), licensee Magdi Yacoub Institute. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license CC BY-4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cite this article as: Agha HM, Hamza HS. Incomplete Kawasaki disease in Egypt, Global Cardiology Science and Practice 2017:24 http://dx.doi.org/10.21542/gcsp.2017.24 Case study
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