Surgery for posterior wall rupture of a left main trunk coronary artery aneurysm
Hiroko Taguchi1, Kikuko Obase1, Junichiro Eishi1
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nagasaki University Hospital, Nagasaki, Japan.
JTCVS Techniques
|December 13, 2022
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