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Images in cardiology
Management of superior vena caval obstruction secondary to a pacing wire with percutaneous intravascular stent insertion
  1. N MELIKIAN,
  2. C I O BROOKES,
  3. A F RICKARDS

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.82.2.182

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