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Acute rheumatic peritonitis

L GRAS, J VAUTIER

    Bulletins Et Memoires De La Societe Medicale Des Hopitaux De Paris
    |October 29, 2010
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    No abstract available in PubMed .

    Keywords:
    PERITONITIS/etiology and pathogenesisRHEUMATIC FEVER/complications and sequelaeRHEUMATISM/complications and sequelae

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