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Letter: Inflammatory Markers and Coronary Collateral Circulation

Aykut Demirkıran¹, Cihan Aydın¹, Mesut Engin²

¹Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Namık Kemal University, Tekirdag, Türkiye.

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