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Myocardial Viability

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Cases showing various presentations of myocardial viability.

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Bonyadlou, S., Sheth, S. (2016). Myocardial Viability. In: Conti, P., Kaushik, A. (eds) PET-CT. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5811-2_15

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