Ultrasound Imaging in Vascular Diseases
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Mariantina Fragou1, Andreas Karabinis2, Eugene Daphnis3, Nicolaos Labropoulos4 and Dimitrios Karakitsos1 1Department of Intensive Care Unit, General State Hospital of Athens 2Department of Intensive Care Unit, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, Athens 3Nephrology Department, Heraklion University Hospital, Heraklion, Crete 4Department of Surgery, Stony Brook University Medical Center, Stony Brook NY 1,2,3Greece 4USA
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