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Ventricular ectopy originating from an echogenic focus of the anterolateral papillary muscle: the contribution of intracardiac echocardiography

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    Dimitrios Asvestas, Theodoros Xenos, Christina Goga & Stylianos Tzeis

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Asvestas, D., Xenos, T., Goga, C. et al. Ventricular ectopy originating from an echogenic focus of the anterolateral papillary muscle: the contribution of intracardiac echocardiography. J Echocardiogr 20, 180–181 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-020-00510-9

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