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Research Article

Cardiac tamponade due to low-volume effusive constrictive pericarditis in a patient with uncontrolled type II autoimmune polyglandular syndrome

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Pages 23-27 | Received 10 Jul 2013, Accepted 03 Nov 2013, Published online: 20 Feb 2014

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