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Ultrasound Assessment of Endothelial-Dependent Flow-Mediated Vasodilation of the Brachial Artery in Clinical Research
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Ankle-brachial index in coronary artery disease
Sevket Balta1, Sait Demirkol2, Mustafa Demir2
1Department of Cardiology, Eskişehir Military Hospital, Eskişehir, Turkey.
Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
|October 16, 2014
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