Two cases of penetrating internal thoracic artery injury successfully treated by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE), respectively
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of the Japanese Association for Chest Surgery
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0919-0945,1881-4158
DOI: 10.2995/jacsurg.27.69