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Partial papillary muscle rupture: a cause of acute mitral regurgitation

Peter B Flueckiger1, Alan C Cheng, Jonathan M Patton

  • 1Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA. pbfluec@emory.edu

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences
|February 5, 2013
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