Lesson of the week: difficulties in diagnosing acute rheumatic fever-arthritis may be short lived and carditis silent.
Williamson
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Department of Rheumatology, Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford OX3 7LD. d.williamson@ukonline.co.uk
Bowness
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Mowat
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Ostman-Smith
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