An echocardiographic study of mitral valve apparatus in acute rheumatic carditis

Journal of Association of Physicians of India

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 926-928

  Agarwal, P K ^a   Misra, M ^a   Sarkari, N B S ^a   Agarwal, Pragya ^a  

^a BRD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

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