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Comment
. 2016 Dec;107(6):607.
doi: 10.5935/abc.20160185.

The Relation between Epicardial Fat Thickness and Prognostic Risk Scores

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Sevket Balta  1 , Cengiz Ozturk  1 , Turgay Celik  1
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The Relation between Epicardial Fat Thickness and Prognostic Risk Scores

[Article in English, Portuguese]
Sevket Balta et al. Arq Bras Cardiol. 2016 Dec.
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