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Supra-aortic Vessel Catheterization in Hostile Anatomy

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    Isabelle Barnaure, Zsolt Kulcsár & Tilman Schubert

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Barnaure, I., Kulcsár, Z. & Schubert, T. Supra-aortic Vessel Catheterization in Hostile Anatomy. Clin Neuroradiol 33, 247–249 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00062-022-01212-8

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