eComment. Leiomyomatosis: intracardiac extension and pulmonary embolization
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eComment. Leiomyomatosis: intracardiac extension and pulmonary embolization.
I read with great interest the article by Li et al. [1]. As rightly outlined in this remarkable review of the literature, extracting data solely from case reports is associated with an inherited bias. Only three intraoperative deaths were recorded, thus yielding a mortality rate of 1.5%. The one-stage approach in which a thoraco-laparotomy is performed under cardiopulmonary bypass with or witho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1569-9293,1569-9285
DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivt191