Echocardiographic Findings Mimicking Type A Aortic Dissection
β Scribed by Peter Alter; Matthias Herzum; Bernhard Maisch
- Publisher
- Urban and Vogel
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- German
- Weight
- 261 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-9937
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