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Editorial
. 2016 Oct;8(10):E1230-E1231.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.09.60.

Onsite cardiac surgery standby during transcatheter aortic valve implantation: when and why

Marco Vola  1 , Antoine Gerbay  2
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Editorial

Onsite cardiac surgery standby during transcatheter aortic valve implantation: when and why

Marco Vola et al. J Thorac Dis. 2016 Oct.
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