A case of outflow tract premature ventricular contractions with very distant exit sites suspected to have a single

Takayuki Sekihara1, Shinsuke Miyazaki1, Moeko Nagao1

  • 1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Fukui, Fukui, Japan.

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