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Percutaneous Retrieval of an Intravascular Foreign Body in the Left Atrium Via a Transpulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation Approach

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  1. Department of Radiology, Vancouver General Hospital, 899 - West 12th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 1M9, Canada

    Manraj K. S. Heran

  2. Department of Radiology, University of British Columbia, 3350–950 W 10th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4E3, Canada

    Bippan S. Sangha

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Heran, M.K.S., Sangha, B.S. Percutaneous Retrieval of an Intravascular Foreign Body in the Left Atrium Via a Transpulmonary Arteriovenous Malformation Approach. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 35, 1245–1247 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-011-0161-7

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