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All That Childhood Coronary Artery Aneurysms Are Not Kawasaki Disease!

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 605006, India

    Darshan Rangaswamy, Jaikumar Govindaswamy Ramamoorthy, Sainadh Mukarjee, Dhandapany Gunasekaran & Venkataraman Ranjith Kumar

  2. Department of Cardiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Avinash Anantharaj

  3. Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, India

    Prabhu Manivannan

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Rangaswamy, D., Ramamoorthy, J.G., Mukarjee, S. et al. All That Childhood Coronary Artery Aneurysms Are Not Kawasaki Disease!. Indian J Pediatr 88, 97–98 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-020-03477-8

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