Interexaminer reliability of pharyngeal injection and palatine tonsillar hypertrophy in a pediatric emergency department
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0735-6757
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2019.01.016