Blunt chest trauma: a right pulmonary vein rupture
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Seong Cheol Jeong, Si Young Choi, Jae Jun Kim and Yong Hwan Kim* Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea * Corresponding author. Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital 65-1, Geumo-dong, Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, 480-821, South Korea. Tel: +82-31-8203586; fax: +82-31-8472934; e-mail: cmccs@na...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2001
ISSN: 1010-7940
DOI: 10.1016/s1010-7940(01)00946-0