Putting Novel Ablation Technologies to the Test

Overview

Journal Europace

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Cardiology & Vascular Diseases
Physiology

Date 2023 Feb 23

PMID 36815295

Authors

Till F Althoff

Affiliations

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