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Novel Catheter Technology for Ablative Cure of Atrial Fibrillation

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    Peter Guerra, Franz X. Roithinger, Yoshinari Goseki, Chris Diederich, William H. Nau, Mark Maguire & Kevin Taylor

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Lesh, M.D., Guerra, P., Roithinger, F.X. et al. Novel Catheter Technology for Ablative Cure of Atrial Fibrillation. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 4 (Suppl 1), 127–139 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009803220847

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