Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 10 , Pages 1132-1139 , October 2006

Twelve-lead ECG features to identify ventricular tachycardia arising from the epicardial right ventricle

Received 27 April 2006 ,Accepted 23 June 2006.

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PII: S1547-5271(06)01720-6

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.06.024

Heart Rhythm
Volume 3, Issue 10 , Pages 1132-1139 , October 2006

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