Psychological and Social Aspects of Paediatric Cardiac Disease

Paediatric Cardiology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1247-1260

  Mussatto, Kathleen ^a  

^a Children's Hospital of Wisconsin ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-7020-3064-2.00066-7     Document Type: Chapter

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