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Case 21. A 4-Year-Old Boy with Fever, Aggravated Cough, and Persistent Abdominal Pain: Pneumonia Presenting as Acute Abdomen

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    Ping-Ing Lee

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    Ping-Ing Lee

  3. Pediatrics, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung City, Taiwan

    Po-Yen Chen

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Lee, PI. (2023). Case 21. A 4-Year-Old Boy with Fever, Aggravated Cough, and Persistent Abdominal Pain: Pneumonia Presenting as Acute Abdomen. In: Huang, YC., Lee, PI., Chen, PY. (eds) Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7276-8_21

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