Writing a Case Report: A Work of Art

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  • Christian Ortega-Loubon Department of Cardiac Sugery, University Clinic Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.
  • Ricardo Correa-Márquez National Institute of Health. USA.

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https://doi.org/10.5195/ijms.2014.94

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Author Biography

Christian Ortega-Loubon, Department of Cardiac Sugery, University Clinic Hospital of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain.

Chris¬tian Ortega-Loubon is a MD and Master of Higher Education from the Uni¬versity of Panama. Resi¬dent of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University Clinic Hospital of Vallado¬lid, Spain. He wrote a book of Case Reports, which has served as a guide to medi¬cal students in Latin Ame¬rica. Has lectured several times on how to present a case report, author and reviewer of case reports in several international journals.

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2017-12-26

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Ortega-Loubon, C., & Correa-Márquez, R. (2017). Writing a Case Report: A Work of Art. International Journal of Medical Students, 2(3), 90–91. https://doi.org/10.5195/ijms.2014.94

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2014)

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