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Takeshi Masaki1, Masami Nishino2, Masayuki Taniike1

  • 1Division of Cardiology, Osaka Rosai Hospital, 1179-3 Nagasone-cho, Sakai, Osaka, 591-8025, Japan.

Journal of Echocardiography
|June 10, 2016
PubMed

Keywords:
Aortic regurgitationCongenital cardiac anomalyQuadricuspid aortic valveTransesophageal echocardiographyTransthoracic echocardiography

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