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 Parwathi “Uma” Paniker, MD, Section Editor

 Funding: None.

 Conflict of Interest: None.

 Authorship: We verify that all authors had access to data and participated in writing this manuscript.

PII: S0002-9343(10)00396-7

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.05.002

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 123, Issue 9 , Pages 802-804 , September 2010

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