Chronic Aortic Dissection Complicated by Recurrent Obstructive Pneumonia.
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Heart Journal
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0021-4868,1348-673X
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.34.377