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New cardiac retractor for epicardial electrode insertion via subxiphoid approach
1Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, National Tokyo Medical University, School of Medicine, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
A new retractor for the insertion of epicardial screw-in electrodes is described. We have found that this instrument can be easily applied to the heart and gives excellent exposure for electrode insertion.