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How case reports can be used to improve diagnosis

  • Kosuke Ishizuka ORCID logo EMAIL logo , Shun Yamashita , Yuichiro Mine , Yukichika Yamamoto , Hiroki Kojima , Hidehiro Someko and Taiju Miyagami ORCID logo
From the journal Diagnosis

Corresponding author: Kosuke Ishizuka, MD, PhD, Department of General Medicine, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, Phone: +81 45 787 2800, Fax. +81 45 350 2728, E-mail:

Acknowledgments

We thank Editage (www.editage.jp) for English-language editing.

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  3. Author contributions: The authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  4. Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.

  5. Research funding: None declared.

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Received: 2023-12-15
Accepted: 2024-01-08
Published Online: 2024-01-19

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