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Volume 51, Number 5

Classification of Juvenile Chronic Idiopathic Arthropathies:
Is It Time to Change Yet?

Hulya Bukulmez, MD
Murray H. Passo, MD
William S. Rowe Division of Rheumatology
Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, OH

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