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Polytetrafluoroethylene reconstruction of the inferior vena cava
Surgery
|May 1, 1984
Abstract:
Three successful cases of reconstruction of the inferior vena cava (one of the bifurcation) by polytetrafluoroethylene grafts suggest further trial of this solution for a difficult and hitherto unsolved problem.
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