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Rocio Diaz1, Ruben Alvarez-Cabo1, Daniel Hernandez-Vaquero1
1Cardiac Surgery Department, Central University Hospital of Asturias, Calle del Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, 33011, Oviedo, Spain.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|November 17, 2016
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