‘Medical Cost Savings through Stroke Prevention from 100 Consecutive New Carotid Duplex Scans’,by G.S. Lavenson and D. Sharma,Cardiovascular Surgery,1996,4: 753–58
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‘Medical Cost Savings through Stroke Prevention from 100 Consecutive New Carotid Duplex Scans’,by G.S. Lavenson and D. Sharma,Cardiovascular Surgery,1996,4: 753–58
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