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Down to the wire: acquiring endovascular skills in cardiac surgery
Maral Ouzounian1, Christine Herman2
1Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|February 23, 2015
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