Boy With the Broken Heart: A Case of Post-Traumatic Left Ventricular Dissection
1Department of Cardiology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, Kerala, India.
Circulation. Cardiovascular Imaging
|March 12, 2021
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