Recent advances in myocardial contrast echocardiography.

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Published in Curr Opin Cardiol on November 01, 1997

Authors

K Wei1, S Kaul

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1: Cardiovascular Division, Medical Center, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville 22908, USA.

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