Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 736-738 , July 2002

Congenital right coronary artery aneurysm causing myocardial infarction, pseudoaneurysm formation, and right atrial compression

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☆ Reprint requests: Roger Click, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St SW, Rochester, MN 55905 (E-mail: click.roger@mayo.edu).

PII: S0894-7317(02)00025-1

doi: 10.1067/mje.2002.118529

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 15, Issue 7 , Pages 736-738 , July 2002

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