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Incremental value of pulmonary artery diameter indexed for BSA in pulmonary hypertension
Marloes P Huitema1, Herre J Reesink2, Martijn C Post1
1Department of Cardiology, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
Thorax
|June 25, 2015
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