Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting Increases Mediastinitis: Myth or Fact?

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  2017

• Venue

  Annals of Thoracic Surgery

• Publication date

  2017-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.06.080PMID 27659597
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