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The Aetiology of Vascular Disease

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Vascular Interventional Radiology

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Diagn Imaging))

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This chapter explains how and why vascular disease processes evolve into the lesions encountered by interventional radiologists.  

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Wells, R.D. (2012). The Aetiology of Vascular Disease. In: Cowling, M. (eds) Vascular Interventional Radiology. Medical Radiology(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/174_2012_552

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