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An unexpected complication during percutaneous pacemaker lead extraction unveiled by transesophageal echocardiography
Skevos Sideris1, Georgios Benetos2, George Lazaros2
1Cardiac Department, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece.
International Journal of Cardiology
|December 3, 2014
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