Compression of the left main bronchus and pulmonary artery after entire aortic replacement with Dacron arterial
Joris W J Vriend1, Lilian J Meijboom, Gijs J Nollen
1Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. b.j.mulder@amc.uva.nl
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 1, 2004
Abstract
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