The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 443-450 , March 2002

Aortic arch reconstruction with pulmonary autograft patch aortoplasty

  • Régine Roussin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis-Robinson, France
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  • Emre Belli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis-Robinson, France
    • Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Deutsches Kinderherzzentrum, Sankt Augustin, Germany
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  • François Lacour-Gayet, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis-Robinson, France
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  • Francois Godart, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital, Lille, France
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  • Christian Rey, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital, Lille, France
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  • Jacqueline Bruniaux, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis-Robinson, France
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  • Claude Planché, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis-Robinson, France
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  • Alain Serraf, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis-Robinson, France

Received 14 May 2001 ,Revised 24 July 2001 ,Accepted 7 September 2001.

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☆ Read at the Eighty-first Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Diego, Calif, May 6-9, 2001.

☆☆ Address for reprints: Alain Serraf, MD, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, 133, Avenue de la Résistance, 92300, Le Plessis-Robinson, France.

PII: S0022-5223(02)37555-X

doi: 10.1067/mtc.2002.120733

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 443-450 , March 2002

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