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Identifying Coronary Artery Calcification on Non-gated Computed Tomography Scans
Published on: August 28, 2018
Multiple thoracoabdominal calcifications in a healthy West African man
Pierre Sellier1, Yves J F Garin, Jacques Frija
1Department of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France. pierre.sellier@lrb.ap-hop-paris.fr
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