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Double left anterior descending artery arising from the left and right coronary arteries is an extremely rare congenital coronary anomaly. We describe, for the first time, three-dimensional, whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiographic findings of double left anterior descending artery.
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Kunimoto, S., Sato, Y., Matsumoto, N. et al. Whole-heart coronary magnetic resonance angiography of double left anterior descending artery. Heart Vessels 23, 363–365 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-008-1046-9
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