The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 134, Issue 6 , Pages 1526-1532 , December 2007

Comparison of eight prosthetic aortic valves in a cadaver model

Received 16 June 2006 ,Revised 4 July 2007 ,Accepted 10 July 2007.

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 Read at the Thirty-second Annual Meeting of the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, Sun Valley, Idaho, June 21-24, 2006.

PII: S0022-5223(07)01347-5

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.07.046

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 134, Issue 6 , Pages 1526-1532 , December 2007

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