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Traumatic left ventricular true aneurysm: echocardiographic, MRI, and intraoperative images
  1. S ElBehery1,
  2. C Barrea1,
  3. T Sluysmans1
  1. catherine.barrea@clin.ucl.ec.be

https://doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2005.072215

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