Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 336-339 , November 2010

Sudden coronary death in children

  • Fabio Tavora

      Affiliations

    • Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA
    • ,
  • Ling Li

      Affiliations

    • University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Allen Burke

      Affiliations

    • Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA
    • University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Pathology, University of Maryland, Room NBW46, 22 S. Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.

Received 15 May 2009 ,Revised 21 May 2010 ,Accepted 2 June 2010.

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 No external funding was used for this research. The authors have no financial disclosure.

PII: S1054-8807(10)00073-6

doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2010.06.001

Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 19, Issue 6 , Pages 336-339 , November 2010

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