Extrinsic compression of the left main coronary artery.

Eur Heart J

Department of Cardiology, The Heart Institute, National University Hospital, 5 Lower Kent Ridge Road, Level 3, Main Building, Singapore 119074, Singapore.

Published: November 2005

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