Relation of the site of acute myocardial infarction to the most severe coronary arterial stenosis at prior angiography
β Scribed by Didier Giroud; Jian M. Li; Philip Urban; Bernhard Meier; Wilhelm Rutishauser
- Book ID
- 113118088
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1992
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 478 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9149
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