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Stress echocardiography: the long and winding road from meta-analysis to bedside

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Picano, E. Stress echocardiography: the long and winding road from meta-analysis to bedside. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 21, 209–211 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-004-6923-4

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