Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 279-283 , December 2007

An Eight-Year-Old Child with Fever, Fatigue, Pallor, and Weight Loss

  • Stephanie Doniger, MD, FAAP

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests and correspondence: Stephanie Doniger, MD, FAAP, Children's Hospital, San Diego.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cpem.2007.08.006

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Volume 8, Issue 4 , Pages 279-283 , December 2007