Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography and Incidental Pulmonary Nodules
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Coronary computed tomographic angiography and incidental pulmonary nodules.
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1 Hospital Mater Dei; Department of Internal Medicine, Grupo de Estudo da Hemostasia e Trombose (GETHe), Faculty of Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 2 Instituto de Previdência do Estado de Minas Gerais, Department of Internal Medicine, GETHe, Faculty of Medicine, UFMG, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 3 Hospital Mater Dei, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil 4 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.114.011634