Congenital Absence of the Left Atrial Appendage: Role of Multimodality Imaging

Overview

Journal CASE (Phila)

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2023 Jul 3

PMID 37396472

Authors

Eric Arguelles

Dennis Mihalatos

Amanda Leung

Roberto G Colangelo

Vinod Jayam

Kana Fujikura

Affiliations

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