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Volume 130, Issue 6 , Pages 1496-1502 , December 2005

Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defects and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries: Unifocalization brings no long-term benefits

Read at the Eighty-fifth Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery, San Francisco, Calif, April 10-13, 2005.

Yves d'Udekem, MD, PhD
- Departments of Cardiac Surgery
- and the Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
- Address for reprints: Yves d'Udekem, MD, PhD, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Flemington Rd, Parkville, Melbourne 3052, Victoria, Australia
Nelson Alphonso, MD
- Departments of Cardiac Surgery
Martin A. Nørgaard, MD, DMSc
- Departments of Cardiac Surgery
Andrew D. Cochrane, MD, FRACS
- Departments of Cardiac Surgery
- and the Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Leeanne E. Grigg, MBBS, FRACP
- Cardiology,
James L. Wilkinson, MB, ChB, FRCP, FRACP
- Royal Children's Hospital, the Department of Pediatrics, The University of Melbourne,
- and the Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Christian P. Brizard, MD
- Departments of Cardiac Surgery
- and the Department of Cardiology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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