Limping in children: look what the cat dragged in!

Arch Dis Child

Pediatric Infectious Disease, Department of Paediatrics, Centre Hospitalier Chrétien (CHC), Clinique de l'Espérance, Liège, Belgium.

Published: January 2019


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