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Iatrogenic fever of unknown origin
Shinnosuke Fukushima1,2,3, Hideharu Hagiya4, Keiji Yunoki5
1Department of General Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Okayama, Japan.
Internal and Emergency Medicine
|March 12, 2025
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