Commentary: Minimally invasive coronary bypass or percutaneous coronary intervention for complex left anterior
Oliver J Liakopoulos1, Yeong-Hoon Choi1
1Department of Cardiac Surgery, Kerckhoff Clinic, Campus Kerckhoff, University of Gießen, Bad Nauheim, Germany.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|August 11, 2020
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