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Remote Magnetic Navigation for Accurate, Real-time Catheter Positioning and Ablation in Cardiac Electrophysiology Procedures
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Remote Magnetic Navigation for Accurate, Real-time Catheter Positioning and Ablation in Cardiac Electrophysiology Procedures

Published on: April 21, 2013

Complications in patients undergoing cardiac electrophysiologic procedures

J P Dimarco, H Garan, J N Ruskin

    Annals of Internal Medicine
    |October 1, 1982
    PubMed

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