Impact of culprit vessel location in acute myocardial infarction on clinical outcome
โ Scribed by Kohei Wakabayashi; Itsik Ben-Dor; Gabriel Maluenda; Michael Mahmoudi; Gabriel Sardi; Rafael Romaguera; Ana Laynez; Michael A. Gaglia Jr.; Manuel A. Gonzalez; Cedric Delhaye; Rebecca Torguson; Zhenyi Xue; William O. Suddath; Lowell F. Satler; Kenneth M. Kent; Augusto D. Pichard; Joseph Lindsay; Ron Waksman
- Book ID
- 113516239
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 52 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1553-8389
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