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Commentary: Starting the conversation of race and outcomes in proximal aortic surgery
Ali J Khiabani1, Puja Kachroo1
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Mo.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|February 11, 2023
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