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Since Willem Einthoven coined the term electrocardiogram (EKG) in at the turn of the twentieth century [1], the EKG has become an increasingly central tool in the clinician’s armamentarium.
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Bader, E.M., Argulian, E., Aziz, E.F., Herzog, E., Greenberg, H. (2014). EKG in Pericardial Disease. In: Herzog, E. (eds) Management of Pericardial Disease. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06124-5_4
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