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Echo-Free Space and Intimal Micro-Tear: Initiating Event or Decompression Rent of Intramural Haematoma?

Received 23 September 2008 ,Accepted 11 November 2008.

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PII: S1533-3167(08)00029-0

doi: 10.1016/j.ejvsextra.2008.11.007

EJVES Extra
Volume 17, Issue 2 , Pages 17-19 , February 2009