Pulmonary arteriovenous fistula within a pulmonary cyst – evaluation with CT pulmonary angiography

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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Radiology

سال: 2010

ISSN: 0007-1285,1748-880X

DOI: 10.1259/bjr/39651947