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  1. Diagnostic Radiology Residency, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Alex Wu

  2. Section of Interventional Radiology, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Eunice Moon & Weiping Wang

  3. Section of Abdominal Imaging, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA

    Brain Hertz

  4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 450 Beacon Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA

    Daniel Sheng Wang

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Wu, A., Moon, E., Wang, D.S. et al. Bard Meridian Filter Fracture. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 38, 251–252 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-014-0935-9

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