Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

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Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine

2007, vol. 16, nr 2, March-April, p. 335–336

Publication type: letter to editor

Language: English

Controversy Surrounding Patients with Chest Pain and Normal Coronary Arteries or Non−Obstructive Coronary Angiogram

Kontrowersje dotyczące chorych z bólem klatki piersiowej i prawidłowymi tętnicami wieńcowymi lub zwężeniami w koronarogramie, niezmniejszającymi przepływu krwi

Bogumił Halawa1,, Przemysław Skoczyński1,

1 Department of Cardiology, Silesian Piasts University of Medicine in Wrocław, Poland

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