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Technique and Patient Selection Criteria of Right Anterior Mini-Thoracotomy for Minimal Access Aortic Valve Replacement
Published on: March 26, 2018
Surgical approach for a patient with aortic stenosis and a frozen mediastinum
Gregory M Janelle1, Stephen C Mnookin, Jennifer J Thomas
1Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine, 1600 SW Archer Road, Gainesville, FL 32610-0254, USA. Janelle@anest1.anest.ufl.edu
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|December 23, 2003
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