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H. van Overhagen has received grants and has grants pending from Abbott, Boston Scientific, Cordis, and Cook. In addition, he has received payment for lectures, as well as travel and accommodation reimbursement from these companies. Grants and payments are not related to the present article. The other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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    H. van Overhagen

  2. Department of Interventional Radiology, Patras University Hospital, Rio, Greece

    S. Spiliopoulos

  3. Department of Radiology, University Hospital of Heraklion, Heraklion, Greece

    D. Tsetis

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van Overhagen, H., Spiliopoulos, S. & Tsetis, D. Below-the-knee Interventions. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 36, 302–311 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-013-0550-1

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