CASE 8--2012 intraoperative embolization of renal cell tumor thrombus during radical nephrectomy
Gaurav Malhotra1, Nabil M Elkassabany, Jonathan Frogel
1Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|August 14, 2012
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