Chest pain in a middle-aged smoker with heart failure and missing lung.

Eur J Intern Med

Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 S Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07107. Electronic address:

Published: November 2020


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