Cardioversion: Past, Present, and Future

Overview

Journal Circulation

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2009 Oct 21

PMID 19841308

Citations 9

Authors

Ivan Cakulev

Igor R Efimov

Albert L Waldo

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