[A Cold Case Solved]

Vera Quiriconi1,2, Christoph Rüst1, Jeroen S Goede3

  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital Winterthur, Winterthur, Schweiz.

Praxis
|April 20, 2026
PubMed
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