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Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts

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This chapter provides practical information for optimizing scanning of coronary artery bypass grafts and reading the images.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine Division of Cardiology, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Viale Oxford 81, 00133, Rome, Italy

    E. Martuscelli

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Martuscelli, E. (2011). Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts. In: Cardiac CT. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14022-8_15

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