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Aspiration thrombectomy using the penumbra catheter
Rahmi Oklu1, Mohammad Ghasemi-Rad1, Zubin Irani1
1Divisions of Interventional Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Gray-Bigelow 290, 55 Fruit St., Boston, MA 02114.
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR
|March 5, 2015
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