Cardiology registrars and permanent pacemaker complication rates
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Cardiology registrars and permanent pacemaker complication rates.
324 © Royal College of Physicians 2014. All rights reserved. Fig 1. (a) and (b) A crush injury a number of months following insertion of a right ventricular pacemaker lead. The lead is transected (arrow). (c) Venogram showing the basilic (BV), cephalic (CV), axillary (AxV) and subclavian (SV) veins. (d) Ultrasound taken at the level shown by the arrow showing the axillary artery (AxA) and vein....
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.14-3-324