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[Relationship between conduction persistence through the slow pathway after atrioventricular nodal reentry

M A Silva1, M I Scanavacca, A D'Avila

  • 1Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP.

Arquivos Brasileiros De Cardiologia
|November 17, 1998
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