Commentary: Radical root resection for prosthetic valve endocarditis

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Editorial

Clancy W Mullan et al. JTCVS Tech. 2021.

. 2021 Jul 21:9:28-29.

doi: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2021.07.012. eCollection 2021 Oct.

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.

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