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Brachial arterial access for PCI: an analysis of the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society database
Majd Protty1, Sean Gallagher1, Andrew S P Sharp1
1Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
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