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Stroke Research and Treatment
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 840265, 5 pages
Detection of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in Stroke/Tia Patients
1Department of Neurology, University of Massachusetts, USA
2Department of Neurology, Henry Ford Hospital, USA
Received 25 January 2013; Accepted 4 March 2013
Academic Editor: V. Padma
Copyright © 2013 Muhib Khan and Daniel J. Miller. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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