Acute aortic dissection after aortic valve replacement
β Scribed by Shuji Kohata; Moriichi Sugama; Toru Ogata
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- Japanese
- Weight
- 958 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1863-6705
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