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Ching Hsiung Chang1, Chi-Tung Peng2, Chi-Wei Chen3
1Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung Ho Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Emergency Medicine Journal : EMJ
|February 22, 2022
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