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Xuezeng Xu1, Shiqiang Yu, Weiguang Wang
1Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, Xijing Hospital, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|July 9, 2010
Abstract:
We report a case of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in a 6-year-old boy who was successfully treated by thoracoscopic surgery. We believe this is the first report of the use of totally thoracoscopic surgery for the correction of a total anomalous pulmonary venous connection.
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