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. 1993 Dec 4;307(6917):1492. doi: 10.1136/bmj.307.6917.1492

Anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation. Not safe and not cheap.

S M Rassam
PMCID: PMC1679499  PMID: 8281097

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