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Fourteen-Year Follow-up in a Teenager with Congenital Long QT Syndrome Masquerading as Idiopathic Generalized Epilepsy
Wei-Yuan Chuang, Yao-Tsung Chuang and Kwo-Chang Ueng
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2009, 22 (3) 331-334; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3122/jabfm.2009.03.080109
Wei-Yuan Chuang
MD
Yao-Tsung Chuang
MD

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Wei-Yuan Chuang, Yao-Tsung Chuang, Kwo-Chang Ueng
The Journal of the American Board of Family
Medicine May 2009, 22 (3) 331-334; DOI: 10.3122/jabfm.2009.03.080109
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