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Images in cardiology
Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula in a patient with cryptogenic stroke
  1. Kye Taek Ahn1,
  2. Jin-Ho Choi1,2,
  3. Seung Woo Park1
  1. 1Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  2. 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  1. Correspondence to Dr Seung Woo Park, Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Imaging Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 50 Irwon-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 135-710, Republic of Korea; s.woo.park{at}samsung.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300470

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