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G Alexander Patterson1

  • 1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, Suite 3108 Queeny Tower, One Barnes Hospital Plaza, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA. pattersona@msnotes.wustl.edu

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|March 6, 2004
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