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Yeiwon Lee1, Young Jin Kim1, Han Young Ryu1

  • 1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Konyang University College of Medicine.

The Korean Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|August 16, 2018
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PneumothoraxScoliosisThorax

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