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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2015

Wong Wing Nam*
Affiliation:
Accident & Emergency Department, United Christian Hospital, Hong Kong

Abstract

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Type
Letters • Courrier
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians 2004

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