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Case 6/2019 - Total Atrioventricular Septal Defect, 12 Years After Operative Correction, No Residual Defects
Edmar Atik1, Maria Angélica Binotto1, Alessandra Costa Barreto1
1Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP - Brazil.
Arquivos Brasileiros De Cardiologia
|December 5, 2019
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