Copyright © 2002 by the European Society of Cardiology.
Letters to the Editor
Interference of two common European digital cellular phones with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators
a Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Medical School Hannover, Germany
b Department of Internal Medicine, Malteser Hospital Bonn, Germany
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