Potentially life-saving role for temporary endovascular balloon occlusion in atypical mediastinal hematoma.

AJR Am J Roentgenol

Department of Radiology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA.

Published: May 2002

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