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Case 49. A 2-Year-Old Girl with Erythematous Swelling in the Left Thigh Following DTaP-Hib-IPV Vaccination: Extensive Limb Swelling Following Vaccination

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  1. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, MacKay Children’s Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hsin Chi

  2. MacKay College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hsin Chi

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  1. Pediatrics, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Yhu-Chering Huang

  2. Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Children’s Hospital, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Ping-Ing Lee

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

    Po-Yen Chen

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Chi, H. (2023). Case 49. A 2-Year-Old Girl with Erythematous Swelling in the Left Thigh Following DTaP-Hib-IPV Vaccination: Extensive Limb Swelling Following Vaccination. In: Huang, YC., Lee, PI., Chen, PY. (eds) Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-7276-8_49

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