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“Crush” and “reverse crush” technique to treat a complex left main stenosis
  1. I Porto,
  2. W van Gaal,
  3. A Banning
  1. i.porto@doctors.org.uk

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/hrt.2005.073221

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