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Catheter-based Endovascular Angioplasty for Fibrosing Mediastinitis-associated Pulmonary Vein Stenosis
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Catheter-based Endovascular Angioplasty for Fibrosing Mediastinitis-associated Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

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[The diagnostics and treatment of the postoperative mediastinitis]

E P Kokhan, A S Aleksandrov

    Khirurgiia
    |March 14, 2012
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