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European Heart Journal 2001 22(4):269-270; doi:10.1053/euhj.2000.2272
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Fulminant and acute lymphocytic myocarditis: the prognostic value of clinicopathological classification

J.M. Hare and K.L. Baughman

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.

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