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Evgenij V Potapov1, Andreas Koster, Matthias Loebe

  • 1Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum, Berlin, Germany. potapov@dhzb.de

The Journal of Extra-Corporeal Technology
|February 26, 2004
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