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Coronary sinus draining into the left subclavian vein through a persistent left superior vena cava

Long Yang1, Jionghong He, Yaxi Zheng

  • 1Department of Cardiology, Guizhou Provincial People's Hospital, China.

Internal Medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
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