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Radial artery pulse to ponder on
Ramanathan Velayutham1, A Shaheer Ahmed2
1Cardiology, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, Puducherry, India nadalram@gmail.com.
Heart (British Cardiac Society)
|February 23, 2023
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