Guía de práctica clíníca de la ESC sobre diagnóstico y tratamiento de las enfermedades arteriales periféricas

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia - Tập 65 Số 2 - Trang 172.e1-172.e57 - 2012
Michał Tendera, Victor Aboyans, Jean‐Baptiste Ricco, Iris Baumgärtner, Denis Clément, Alberto Cremonesi, Marco De Carlo, Raimund Erbel, F.G.R. Fowkes, Magda Heras, Christine Espinola‐Klein, Erich Minar, Jan Östergren, Don Poldermans, Vincent Riambau, Marco Roffi, Lucia Mazzolai, Horst Sievert, Marc van Sambeek, Thomas Zeller

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