Anomalous origin of the left anterior descending artery from the main pulmonary artery with multi-detector row computed tomography coronary angiography
โ Scribed by Pei-I Liu; Pu-Lin Hsieh; Ikuho Ohta; Ding-Kwo Wu; Jui-Sheng Hsu; Ming-Tsung Chuang
- Book ID
- 116547423
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 296 KB
- Volume
- 139
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-5273
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