Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 7 , Pages 970-971 , July 2009

Esophagoscopy following cryoballoon pulmonary vein ablation: Can the promise be met?

  • Lars Lickfett, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Lars Lickfett, Department of Medicine–Cardiology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Strasse 25, 53105 Bonn, Germany

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PII: S1547-5271(09)00428-7

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.04.013

Heart Rhythm
Volume 6, Issue 7 , Pages 970-971 , July 2009

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