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Calcified aorto-right ventricular tunnel in a patient with multiple lentigines syndrome
Varun Shankar Narain1, Sudarshan Kumar Vijay, Rishi Sethi
1Department of Cardiology, CSM Medical University (King George's Medical College), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
|January 5, 2013
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