Primary percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy for malignant pericardial effusion
โ Scribed by Neil Swanson; Intisar Mirza; Namal Wijesinghe; Gerard Devlin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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