Percutaneous treatment of a left main coronary artery pseudoaneurysm after a Bentall operation
Kenneth Tandjung1, Birgitta K Velthuis2, Egidius E H L van Aarnhem3
1Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht 3584 CX, the Netherlands.
European Heart Journal
|February 19, 2020
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