Is admission to hospital with stridor and acute viral croup influenced by time?

K P Dawson1

  • 1Department of Paediatrics, Christchurch School of Medicine, Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand.

Australian Paediatric Journal
|February 1, 1988
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