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Breast Infection (cont.)

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Author: Suzanne R Trupin, MD

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD

Previous contributing coauthors and editors: Coauthor(s): Jennifer J Pearson, MD, Staff Physician, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center; Dick C Kuo, MD, FACEP, Clinical Director, Director of Quality Assurance, Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Maryland Medical System; Melissa Howell Kennedy, MD, Former Consulting Staff, Department of Emergency Medicine, West Shore Medical Center.

Editors: Richard Harrigan, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Temple University Hospital, Temple University School of Medicine; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Lee P Shulman, MD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Head, Section of Reproductive Genetics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.


Last Editorial Review: 6/20/2007

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