May–Thurner Syndrome in Pregnancy-Associated Venous Thromboembolism

CC BY 4.0 · TH Open 2021; 05(03): e251-e252
DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1731710

Letter to the Editor

¹Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, El Paso, Texas, United States

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Debabrata Mukherjee

²Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at El Paso, Texas, United States

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