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Published in Circulation on December 24, 2013

Authors

Nicolas M Van Mieghem1, Marguerite E I Schipper, Elena Ladich, Elham Faqiri, Robert van der Boon, Abas Randjgari, Carl Schultz, Adriaan Moelker, Robert-Jan van Geuns, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Patrick W Serruys, Renu Virmani, Peter P de Jaegere

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Interventional Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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