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Chronic fatigue syndrome and children

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Simon Wessely
Simon Wessely*
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Academic Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College School of Medicine, 103 Denmark Hill, London SE11 6BY
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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , April 1998 , pp. 193 - 194
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