Perigraft seroma formation after Norwood-Sano procedure
Maureen A McKiernan1, Paul Chai2, Subhadra Shashidharan2
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.
JTCVS Techniques
|February 23, 2023
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