Assessing ventricular scar in tetralogy of Fallot
1Division of Cardiology, Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Circulation. Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology
|October 17, 2013
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