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Volume 139, Issue 6 , Pages 1416-1419 , June 2010

Pulmonary autograft valve explants show typical degeneration

Aart Mookhoek, MSc
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Emile de Heer, PhD
- Department of Pathology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Ad J.J.C. Bogers, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Johanna J.M. Takkenberg, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Paul H. Schoof, MD, PhD
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Address for reprints: Paul H. Schoof, MD, PhD, Utrecht University Medical Center, Wilhelmina Children's Hospital, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Postbus 85090, 3508 AB Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Received 21 November 2009 ,Revised 28 December 2009 ,Accepted 10 January 2010.

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