Atherosclerosis
Volume 204, Issue 1 , Pages 18-19 , May 2009

Variability of arterial wall shear stress, its dependence on vessel diameter and implications for Murray's Law

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☆ The publisher regrets that this article was previously published in an issue of Atherosclerosis 2009;203:47–48.

PII: S0021-9150(09)00272-X

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2009.04.007

Atherosclerosis
Volume 204, Issue 1 , Pages 18-19 , May 2009

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