Complex coronary pulmonary artery fistulae with a large aneurysm: a rare anomaly treated with surgery
Tomoki Fukui1, Kenji Tanaka2, Nobuyuki Ogasawara1
1Department of Cardiology, Japan Community Healthcare Organization Osaka Hospital, 4-2-78, Fukushima, Fukushima-Ku, Osaka City, Osaka 553-0003, Japan.
European Heart Journal. Case Reports
|January 11, 2021
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