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Hyun Soon Kim1, Dae Hee Kim2, Hai-Jeon Yoon3

  • 1Department of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

Journal of Korean Medical Science
|November 27, 2018
PubMed
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