Mediastinal mass compressing the right atrium
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عنوان ژورنال: Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi Arsivi-Archives of the Turkish Society of Cardiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1016-5169
DOI: 10.5543/tkda.2016.72279