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Maude Peretz-Larochelle¹, Sarah Blissett^1,2, Jed Lipes³

¹Division of Cardiology, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

CASE (Philadelphia, Pa.)

|August 1, 2018

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Keywords:

Cardiac metastases Cardiac thrombus Cardiac tumor Right ventricular masses

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