Volunteering Saved my Life! A Case of Anomalous Right Coronary Artery Take Off
Grace Nassim1, Patrick Ters1,2, Freidy Eid1,3
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, Wichita, KS.
Kansas Journal of Medicine
|March 1, 2021
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