Transesophageal Echocardiography-Guided Tumor/Thrombus Debulking Using the AngioVac Transcatheter Aspiration Device
Arran Seiler1, Phillip Gnadinger1, Jason Glotzbach2
1University of Utah Department of Anesthesiology, Salt Lake City, UT.
Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia
|November 19, 2019
Abstract
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