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Middle Cerebral Artery Infarction: Relationship of Cavernous Carotid Artery Calcification
Lukasz S. Babiarz, David M. Yousem, Warren Bilker and Bruce A. Wasserman
American Journal of Neuroradiology June 2005, 26 (6) 1505-1511;
Lukasz S. Babiarz
David M. Yousem
Warren Bilker
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