The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 421-428 , March 2002

Marginal donor lungs: A reassessment

Received 14 May 2001 ,Revised 7 September 2001 ,Accepted 14 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: Shaf H. Keshavjee, MD, Director, Toronto Lung Transplant Program, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St, EN 10-224, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada (E-mail: shaf.keshavjee@uhn.on.ca ).

PII: S0022-5223(02)46632-9

doi: 10.1067/mtc.2002.120345

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 123, Issue 3 , Pages 421-428 , March 2002

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