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Is interventional closure the current treatment of choice for selected patients with deficient atrial septation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2006

Per G. Bjørnstad
Affiliation:
Paediatric Cardiology, Rikshospitalet – The National Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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