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Quality Improvement Guidelines for Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts
Sean R Dariushnia1, Ziv J Haskal2, Mehran Midia3
1Department of Radiology, Interventional Radiology and Image-Guided Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology : JVIR
|November 29, 2015
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